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GEORGE MORTON 

OF PLYMOUTH COLONY 

AND SOME OF HIS 

DESCENDANTS 






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By John K. Allen 



PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY 

JOHN K. ALLEN 

49-51 North Jefferson Street 

CHICAGO, ILL. 

1908 



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Dedicated 

To George Morton 

And 

His Descendants: 

Pioneers in thought and action, blazing new 
paths in mind and erecting new homes in the 
wilderness because of their desire to worship 
( rod according to their expanding ideas 



Gift 
Author 






' eorge Morton and Some of His 

Descendants 



By John K. Allen 



George Morton was one of the founders of the colony of New 
Plymouth in Massachusetts, having been of that company of Puritans 
who left England in the early part of the seventeenth century, found a 
brief asylum in Holland, and came to America to establish a Christian 
state. The causes leading to the settlement of Plymouth are so well set 
forth by Nathaniel Morton, 2 a son of George Morton, in "New England's 
Memorial,"* that his statement may well introduce this record of a part, 
of the family which thus came to be founded in America. He says, in 
beginning what has been justly called the "corner stone" of New England 
history : 

"In the year 1602 divers Godly Christians of our English nation, in the North 
of England, being studious of reformation, and therefore not only witnessing against 
human inventions, and additions in the worship of God, but minding most the 
positive and practical part of divine institutions, they entered into covenant to walk 
with God, and one with another, in the enjoyment of the ordinances of God, accord- 
ing to the primitive pattern of the word of God. But finding by experience they 
could not peaceably enjoy their own liberty in their native country, without offense 
to others that were differently minded, they took up thoughts of removing them- 
selves and their families into the Netherlands, which accordingly they endeavored to 
accomplish, but met with great hindrance; yet after some time the good hand of 
God removing obstructions, they thus obtained their desires; arriving in Holland, 
they settled themselves in the city of Leyden in the year 1610, and there they con- 
tinued divers years in a comfortable condition, enjoying much sweet society and 
spiritual comfort in the ways of God, living peaceably amongst themselves, and 
being courteously entertained and lovingly respected by the Dutch, amongst whom 
they were strangers, having for their pastor Mr. John Robinson, a man of a learruvl, 
polished and modest spirit, pious and studying of the truth, largely accomplished 
with suitable gifts and qualifications to be a shepherd over this flock of Christ ; 
having also a fellow helper with him in the eldership, Mr. William Brewster, a man 
of approved piety, gravity and integrity, very eminently furnished with gifts suit- 
able to such an office. ' ' 

This simple description of the beginning of a momentous movement 
gives but a faint hint of the severity of the conflict for religious freedom 
which began at the little village of Scrooby. There, in the drawing room of 
William Brewster at Scrooby Manor, was formed that independent congrc- 
gationalist church, under the leadership of John Robinson, numbering 
among its members that grave young man, William Bradford, later to 
become a brother-in-law of George Morton, and for thirty years the gov- 

' *"New England's Memorial," etc., by Nathaniel Morton. Secretary to the 
Court for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth." Cambridge: 1669. 

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ernor of the colony, which both assisted in establishing. Among those 
iibere it is quite possible to imagine George Morton, f a thoughtfuJ 
young man, scarcely more than twenty, but of excellent education and great 
strength of purpose. No list of the members of this church is known toil 



f George Morton, according to Judge John Davis (see Preface to 5th Edition of 
"Ne« England's Memorial," by Nathaniel Morton. Boston: 1826) had been an 
inhabitant of Austerfield, the same village in the North of England from which 
William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony. Judge Davis also says 
Morton was related to Governor Bradford by marriage, his wife Sarah being 
thi governor's sister. This latter statement we now know to be an error. George 
Mortem s wife, Juliana, was a sister of Alice, the second wife of Governor Bradford. 

The maiden name of Governor Bradford's second wife was Alice Carpenter 
(see "Memoirs of American Governors," Jacob Bailey Moore. Washington: 1846, 
p. 88), a lady of extraordinary capacity and worth. It is said that an early attach- 
ment existed between Mr. Bradford and this lady, and that their marriage was pre- 
vented by her parents, on account of his inferior circumstances and rank. She after- 
wards married Sir Edward Southworth. Being now a widower (his first wife, whose 
maiden name was Dorothy May, having been drowned December 7, 1620, by acci- 
dentally falling from the deck of the Mayflower into the sea), Governor Bradford, 
by letters to England, made overtures to Lady Southworth, who was then a widow. 
She accepted hie proposal, and with a generous resolution she embarked (on the 
Anne) in 1623 to meet her intended partner, knowing that he could not well leave 
his responsible station in the new settlement. (With her on the Anne were Mr. and 
Mrn. (ieorge. Morton and their children, Mrs. Morton, who was Juliana Carpenter, 
being Mrs. Southworth 's sister.) Her two sons, Thomas and Constant Southworth, 
the younger of whom was only six years of age, came over with her, and she brought 
a handsome estate into the country. Her marriage (the fourth in the colony) with 
i rnor Bradford took place on the 14th of August, 1623. She died in March, . 
1670, aged 80 years. 

Of Mrs. Alice Bradford, Elder Faunce, in his eulogy, spoke concerning "her 
< xi-rtions in promoting the literary improvement and the good deportment of the 
rising generation, according to the accounts he had received of some of her co-tem- 
poraries. " (See footnote of Judge Davis in "New England's Memorial," 5th Edi- 
tion. Boston: 1826, p. 104.) 

In the I'lymouth Church records (see footnote on p. 460 of Collections of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. Ill, 4th series, 1856), under date of March 
l f J-L'n, 1667, is a record of the death, at Plymouth, of Mary Carpenter, sister of 
Mrn. Al nthworth) Bradford, the wife of Governor Bradford, "being newly 

f-nt. re. I into the 91st year of her age. She was a Godly old maid, never married." 

J'riKcilla Carpenter, smother daughter of Alexander Carpenter, of Wrentham, 
England, m. John Cooper, of Scitnate in 1634, she being then the widow of William 
Wngbt. lie removed in 1639 to Barnstable, and is said by Savage to have died 
then- withool children. 

The following is the Carpenter genealogy in Englaud: 

1. John Carpenter, English member of Parliament, 1323. 

2. Biehard Carpenter, b. 1335; m. Christina — ; buried at St. Martins, 
Ontwieh, London. 

8. John Carpenter, brother of the famous town clerk of London. 

4. John Carpenter. 

6. William Carpenter, b. 1440; d. 1520. 
<'.. Jam* - Carpenter. 

7. John Carpenter. 

8. William Carpenter. 

D. Alexander Carpenter, of Wrentham, )>. 1560. 
16. Juliana, m. George Morton, 
ife: ' arpenter genealogy. 



exist, nor are the names known of all those self-exiled Englishmen who 
succeeded in escaping to Holland in 1610, hut two years later it is known 
that George Morton was of their number, as in the Dutch records is found 
the record of his marriage, as follows : 

FIRST KNOWN RECORD OF GEORGE MORTON. 

"George Morton, merchant from York in England, accompanied by 
Thomas Morton, his brother, and Roger Wilson, his acquaintance, with 
Juliana Carpenter, maid from Bath in England, accompanied by Alex- 
ander Carpenter, her father, and Alice Carpenter, her sister, and Anna 
Robinson, her acquaintance. 

"The banns were published July 6-16, 1612. 

"The marriage took place 23 July-2 Aug., 1612." 

CONJECTURE AS TO HIS ORIGIN. 

"This is the first positive record of him. Back of this he has not been 
traced certainly. But there was a Morton family, ancient and honorable, 
in Haworth, adjoining Bawtry and Austerfield, the Pilgrim region. It 
owned a large estate. In this family there grew up a contemporary of 
William Bradford, who lived only a mile or two away, a George Morton. 
He is recorded. About the time of the departure of the Pilgrims to Hol- 
land he disappeared. Some four years later a George Morton, of about 
corresponding age, and the progenitor of the Morton family in America, 
turned up among the Pilgrims in Leyden. The inference is natural that 
the two George Mortons were identical, and that the Haworth George 
Morton had become a Puritan and a Separatist, had left Haworth about 
1607 or 1608, had passed a part or the whole of the interval at York, and 
by 1612 had joined his old neighbors in Leyden. That a member of such 
a family should become a merchant — if he were one at York as well as 
in Leyden, which the Leyden record may imply — is accounted for by the 
fact that his own family was intensely Roman Catholic and would have 
been almost certain to disinherit him." Morton Dexter in private letter to 
the author. 

ANCESTRY OF GEORGE MORTON OF BAWTRY. 

As there is a possibility that the George Morton who is referred to by 
Morton Dexter as being cotemporary with William Bradford in the Scrooby 
neighborhood and the George Morton who appeared in Leyden in 1612 
were identical, it may be interesting to trace the ancestry of George Mor- 
ton, of Bawtry. The following is deduced from the Harleian Society's 
publications containing Joseph Hunters "Familiae Minorum Gentium" 
and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire. In its entirety as there pub- 
lished, it is an interesting "family tree'' and shows that Cardinal John 
Morton and Bishop Thomas Morton, both so celebrated in English history, 
were of this family. I give here the line of descent from Thomas in the 
fourteenth century, to George of Bawtry, the ninth, tenth and eleventh gen- 
erations being supplied from "Familiae Minorum Gentium" by Joseph 
Hunter, Vol. I, p. 241. 

1. Thomas Morton, secretary to King Edward I IT. 

2. i. Robert. 

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2. Robert Morton, Sher. of Notts and Derby, 1362. 

3. i. Robert. 

ii. WlLUAM, of St. Andrews; Milburn, Dorset, second son. 

3. Robert Morton, of Morton, Co. Notts. 

4. i. Charles. 

4. Charles Morton, of Morton. 

5. i. Robert. 

5. Robert Morton, of Morton, m. Cicely, dau. of Nicholas Knyve- 
t<>n, of Mircaeton. 

fi. i. Robert. 

6. Robert Morton, m. Ales (Alice), daughter of Sir Richard Bozon. 

7. i. Nicholas. 

Six other sons who died without issue, 
viii. Elizabeth, m. Laxton. 
is. Anne, m. William Lacy. 
x. Alice, m. Richard Fishborne. 

7. Nicholas Morton, of Morton, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas 
Wentworth, of Elmsall, Co. York. 

i. Robert. 

8. ii. CHARLES, second son, and lioir to his brother Robert. 

8. Charles Morton, of Bawtry, m. Maud, dau. of Wil. Dalison, of 
Co. Lincolnshire. His will dated 1531. (From here I quote from the 
yisitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, p. 213, as the family 
record of this line of the familv is not continued in this place beyond 
Charles. ) 

i. CHARLES, son and heir; d. young; m. (1) Christian, dau. of Bryan 

Hastings; (2) Frances Frobischer. 
H. ii. Robert, heir to his brother Charles, 
iii. Thomas. 
jv. NICHOLAS, became a Priest; Papal Emissary, B. A., Camb., 1542; 

M. A., 1545; Fllow of his College, 1546; D. D. in Rome, living 

there, December 9, 1586. (See his life in the Diet, of Nat'l Bioe., 

Vol. XXXIX, p. 156.) 
v. Anthony. 
vi. Charles. 

vii. GSRVASE. 

▼iii. Francis. 

is.. ELIZABETH, m. Thomas Cranmer, of Aslockton, Notts. 

i. Mary, m, John Paget. 

xi. .Joan, d; without issue, 

xii. I . d. without issue, 

xiii. Dorothy, m. John Stagg. 

«r». ^ ■ . m. TIkmh.is Compton, of Willingham, Lincolnshire. 

JANE, m. John Norton, second son of Richard, of Norton Conyers. 

w\. [sabel, in. Richard Halsworth. 



B 
Alice 



ElOBBBl Morton, of Bawtry, Esquire, will dated 1575, m (1) 
•. 'hin. of Sir John Mm-klmm. of Colham, Xotts. 
i. John, d. young, 

ii. of Bawtry, Esquire; buried in Eaworth Chapel. 

ii ; . \-.v, d. young. 



Md. (2) Anno, dan. of John Norton, of Norton Conyers, and widow of 
Robert Plumpton. 

iv. Bobert, executed in London, Aug. '2(5, 1588, as B traitor. See Diet. 

of Nat. Biography, A" XX IX, p. 156. 
v. Sampson, went to Kome. 
vi. Daniel, went to Rome, 
vii. Elizabeth, d. young. 

9. Anthony Morton, of Bawtry, Esquire; buried in the chapel 
there; m. — . 

10. i. George. 
ii. Robert. 

10. George, m. Catherine, dan. of John Boun, Esquire, of Notts 
(buried in chapel at Bawtry). 

i. George, of Leyden and Plymouth. 

AN IMPROBABLE RECORD OF HIS PARENTAGE. 

From the records of one branch of the Mortons in America, furnished 
me by E. P. Morton, Esq., of Webster, Mass., I copied the following state- 
ment concerning the parentage of George Morton; Mr. Morton states that 
the information was furnished him by a cousin, now deceased, and he 
does not know what authority the statement rests upon: 

"Thomas Morton, b. in York, England, March 20, 1564. Dean of Glou- 
cester and Winchester; Bishop of Chester, 1615; of Coventry, 1618; of 
Durham, 1632: imprisoned in Tower of London, 1645, by Charles I.; d. 
September 22, 1659. George, his son, b. 1585; became a merchant at 
York; went to Leyden 1612 with Pilgrims; m. there in 1612 Julian, dau. 
of Alex Carpenter, of Wrentham. She was a sister of Alice Carpenter 
Southworth, the second wife of Governor Bradford. In 1620 George came 
to England with the Pilgrims, but remained in London, acted as their 
agent and published 'Mourt's Relation,' a compilation from the journals 
of Bradford and Winslow. In 1623 he came to Plymouth in the 'Ann' 
and d. in 1624." v. 

The unsupported statement that George Morion was a son of the 
Thomas Morton referred to is undoubtedly an error. The Thomas Morton 
born in York, March 20, 1564, became a very prominent prelate in the 
English Roman Catholic Church and his biography may be found in any 
standard biographical collection. He died a Bishop and undoubtedly had 
no issue. 

THE MORTON FA KM IN ENGLAND. 

The following quotation is from an article entitled, "In and About 
Scrooby," bv Morton Dexter, published in "The Mayflower Descendant." 
Vol. II, pp. 194-5 : 

"A long mile northwest from the Crown Inn (Bawtry) and in Haworth 
Parish lies the large Martin farm, the remainder of the large estate once 
owned by the Morton family, an ancient and honorable house which has 
furnished, in its descendants, at least one governor and one chief-justice 
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. 






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"Much more interesting (than the Haworth parish church), although 
it has been 'restored' out of whatever antique beauty it may have had, 
IE the old .Morton Chapel, which, although close to the houses of Bawtry, 
really is just over the line in Haworth. Three hundred years or more ago 
the Mortons, then Roman Catholics, built and endowed this chapel, and 
also, just across the road, two or three little cottages as refuges for poor 
old women. It is pleasant to know that the pious purposes of the foun- 
ders have not failed to be fulfilled by their Protestant successors. "Wor- 
ship still is held regularly in the church, which has become a 'chapel-of- 
of the Bawtry parish church, and you may still see old women in 
the cottages who owe their enjoyment of homes, instead of becoming 
inmates of some great county asylum, to the beneficence of the past." 

george morton's origin undecided. 

It does not seem possible at this time, with the information available 
in the United States, positively to determine the English ancestry of 
George Morton. I shall be glad if further search reveals it. 

HISTORY OF THE NAME OF MORTON. 

In a private genealogical record of one branch of George Morton's 
descendants, compiled by Stuart C. Wade, Esq., of New York, this inter- 
esting statement is made concerning the "Morton" name in England and 
France : 

"The name of Morton, Moreton and Mortaigne is earliest found in 
old Dauphine, and is still existant in France, where it is represented by 
the present Comtes and Marquises Morton de Chabrillon, and where the 
family lias occupied many important positions. 

"In the annals of the family there is a statement repeatedly met with, 
that as a result of a quarrel one of the name migrated from Dauphine, 
first to Brittany and then to Normandy, where he joined William the Con- 
queror. Certain it is that among the followers of William, painted on 
the chance] ceiling of the ancient church of Dives in old Normandy, is 
that of Robert, Comte de Mortain. It also figures on Battle Abbey Roll, 
the Domesday Book, and the Norman rolls, and it is conjectured that the 
Count Robert, who was also half brother of William the Conqueror, by 
his mother Harlotte, was the founder of the English family of that name. 

"In the Bayenx tapestry he is represented as of the Council of William, 
the result of which was the landing at Pevensey, the battle of Senlac or 
EastingB, am] the conquest of England. The Reverend Mark Antony 
Lower, M. A., 1'. S. A., in his Dictionary of the Family Names of the 
United Kingdom (p. 229) supplies the most probable and reasonable origin 
of the family name of Moreton or Morton in this definition: 'Morton, an 
anglicized form of Mortain, a great baronial family founded in England 
by Bobert, Bar] of Mortaine, uterine brother of William the Conqueror.' 
This ancestral worthy deserves, as will be seen, a brief mention. Accord- 
ing to Sidney Lee's Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXXIX, p. 
L17, lie was Count of Mortain, in the diocese of Avranches, France, was 
pxeeenl at the Council of Lillebonne to discuss the invasion of England, 
contributed one hundred ami twenty ships to the fleet, and himself fought 



at the battle of Hastings. His possessions in England were larger than 
any other follower of William the Conqueror (Freeman, Norman Con- 
quest, IV, p. 764) and have been estimated at 793 manors, (Brady, Intro- 
duction to Domesday, p. 13). He had 248 manors in Cornwall, L96 in 
Yorkshire, 99 in Northamptonshire, 75 in Devonshire, with a church and 
house in Exeter, 54 in Sussex and the borough of Pevensey, 49 in Dorset, 
29 in Buckinghamshire, and one or more in ten other counties (Willis. 1, 
p. 455). He had a castle of Mortain in Normandy and died in 1091. 
With such an origin for the name the map of England is found dotted 
with traces of Morton place-names, and a place-name is one of the most 
frequent sources of a family name. Thus John, who lived at Morton, 
became John de Morton on the adoption of surnames and, abandoning the 
"de," founded a family of Mortons." 

SECOND KNOWN RECORD OF GEORGE MORTON. 

The second reference to George Morton which we find is in the Dutch 
record of the marriage in Leyden, December 15-25, 1612, of Edward Pick- 
ering, "merchant from London" with "Mayeken Stuws," with George 
Morton present as a witness. 

AS TO HIS AUTHORSHIP OF "MOURT's RELATION." 

George Morton is credited with having been the publisher in London 
of "Mourt's Relation," a volume of great interest because it was the first 
publication of information about the adventure of the Pilgrims. This 
volume was published under the name of "G. Mourt," and as to the iden- 
tification of "G. Mourt" with George Morton, I quote the late Rev. Henry 
Martyn Dexter as follows: 

"Who was "G. Mourt"? From* his preface (to "Mourt's Relation") 
two things are clear: 

"1. He had been formerly associated with the writers of these jour- 
nals — Bradford and Winslow — to that degree that he could speak of them 
as "my both known and faithful friends." 

"2. He had always desired, and was now intending soon, to emigrate 
in person to join the company in New-Plymouth; inasmuch as he says, 
'Myselfe then much desired, and shortly hope to effect, if the Lord will, 
the putting to of my shoulder in this hope full business.' 

"If in this case, as in each similar instance in the volume, the initials 
only had been given, and we were simply called upon to interpret 'G. M.' 
no 'one probably would hesitate to read them Georae Morton, inasmuch 
as there was no other member of the Leyden-Plymouth Company, to all 
appearance, so likely as he was to have done Buch a work. He had joined 
them at least as earlv as 1612. He had been intrusted with public employ- 
ment on their behalf. He seems to have been in London as an agenl 
them, while those negotiations were going on witli Weston and others. 
which resulted in the sailing of the Mavllower. lie himself sailed with 



•"Mourt's Eelation, or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth, with an Intro- 
ition and Notes," Henry Martyn Dexter. Boston: 1865. Author's Introduc- 



duction 

tion, page XVIII et seq 



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his family for New Plymouth in the Anne, about the last of April, in the 
following year. He is the only G. M. of whom these things were true; in 
fact, the only G. M. of any sort known as being in their company, of 
whom they could be true. 

"Unless we take the ground, then, that the difference between Mourt 
and Morion is sufficient to overturn these probabilities by suggesting 
another of greater weight, we shall inevitably come to the conclusion which 
was reached by Dr. Young (Chron. Plym., page 113), that 'G. Mourt' was 
none other than George Morton." 

Two copies of the original edition of "Mourt's Eelation" are in the 
Lenox Library in Xew York. 

gboege Morton's arrival at Plymouth. 
George Morton came to Plymouth in the ship "Anne" during the lat- 
tef part of July, in the year 1G23. Of the arrival of Mr. Morton, 
Nathaniel Morton, his eldest son, says in "New England's Memorial"*: 
"About fourteen days after (the fast held about the middle of July) came 
in the ship, called the Ann, whereof Mr. William Pierce was master. Two 
< f the principal passengers that came in this ship were Mr. Timothy 
[fatherly and Mr. George Morton. * * * The latter of the two fore- 
named, viz., Mr. George Morton, was a pious, gracious servant of God, 
and very faithful in whatsoever publick employment he was betrusted 
withal, and an unfeigned well-wilier, and according to his sphere and con- 
dition a suitable promoter of the common good and growth of the planta- 
tion of New 1'limouth; labouring to still the discontents that sometimes 
would arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these 
new beginnings; but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after 
his arrival m New-England, not surviving a full year after his coming 
ashore. With much comfort and peace he fell asleep in the Lord, in the 
nth of June. Anno. 1(524." 

• mas Morton, of Plymouth, Mass., writing March 9, 1807, "partly 
from the record and partly from tradition," says (in a manuscript owned 
by Man i- Morton, Esq., of Boston, Mass.) : "Mr. George Morton at- 
tempted to come over he fore, and after having obtained near half the 
the -hip proved leaky and returned to England again." If this be 
Morton was one of thi "part of the company" which was 
lined to London od the '•Speedwell," after putting in at Plymouth. 
".New England's Memorial," Nathaniel Morton, Edition of 1826 

DEATH or QEOEGE MORTON. 

Concerning the d«ath of (ieorge Morion, Felt has this to say in his 

"Ecclesiastical History of New Englarid": " I n June the colonists met with 

a the death of Geo. Morton, an exemplary Christian and a 

pillar of church and Bociety. * * * Though his tarry here is short 

' ■ "inrial on high is everlasting." 

In the division of land anion-- those who came in the "Ann" it is 
recorded thai i Morton and Experience Mitchell (names bracketed 

Fifth edition, p. L00-101. 



together) received right acres abutting "against the Swampe and Beed 
Ponde." In the same Location Thomas Morton, Jr., was allotted one acre. 
After Mr. Morton's death his widow married Aianasseh Kempton. 
She died February L9-29, L665-6, aged 81, and is mentioned in the 
Plymouth town records as a faithful servant of God. Mr. Kempton died 
January 14, 1662-3. 



SCOPE OF THIS PUBLICATION. 

In this record of the descendants of George Morton I have given the 
first four generations as completely as it ha- been possible to glean the 
information. Beginning with the fifth generation the descendants of but 
one line are now published, except that copious footnotes include the de- 
scent of certain prominent lines. 

Children of George Morton and Juliana, his wife: 

2. i. Nathaniel, b. in Leyden, Holland, about 1613. 

ii. Patience, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1615; d. 1691; m. at Plymouth, 
1633, John Fannce, wli" came in the "Ann" in L623; they had 
children: 

i. Priscilla, b. — ; m. Joseph Warren. 
ii. Mary, b. July lo-iM, 1658; m. William Harlow, 
iii. Patience, b. Nov. 20-30, 1661; in. John Holmes. 
_iv. Sarah, b. Feb. 26-March 8, 1663-4; m. Edward Doty 
and (2) John Buck, 
v. Thomas, b. 1647; the famous elder.* 
vi. Elizabeth, b. March 23-April 2, 1648; m. Isaac Rob- 
inson. 
Tii. Mercy, b. April 10-20, 1651 ; m. Dec. 29-Jan. 8, 1667- 

8, Nathaniel Holmes. 
viii. Joseph, b. May 14-24, 1653; d. Jan. 18-28, 1687. 
i.\. John, b. — , 1654; d. Nov. 29-Dec. 9, 1654. 
V 2. iii. JOHN, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1616. 

iT. Sarah, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1618; m. Dec. 20-30, 1644, as his sec- 
ond wife, George Bonum, who appeared early in Plymouth; she d. 
1694; he d. April 28, 1704, aged 95 years; their children: 

i. Ruth, b. Nov. 28-Dec. 8, 1666; m. Robert Harrow. 
ii. Patience, b. — . Dec. 28-Jan. 7, 1670-1; m. Richard 

Willis, son of Richard and Ann Glass Willis, 
iii. Sarah, b. Dec. 4-14, 1649; d. early in 1650. 
iv. SARAH, b. Jan. 12-22, 1651-2; d. probably soon, 
v. Sarah, b. Dec. 10-20, 1653; d. April 28-Maj !\ 17u4. 
vi. George, b. — ; ra. 1683 to Elizabeth Jenney, d. of 
Samuel Jenney, and had: (i) Samuel, 1). — , 1686; 
(ii) Ruth, b. — , 1688; (iii) Elizabeth, b. — , 1689; 
(iv) Ann, b. — , 1690; (v) Sarah, b. — , 1693; (vi) 
Lydia, b. — , 1696; (vii) Ebenezer. b. — , 1699; 
(viii) Susanna, b. — , 1700. 

3. v. EPHRAIM, b. — , 1623, it is said, on "Ann" on the passage to Now 

England. 

•'Among the noted descendants of Patience (Morton) Fannce are Hon. 
William Bradford. 1728-9-1808, lieutenant governor of Rhode Island, 
United States Senator, and president pro ton purr of the Senate in 1787; 



•To the memn< - v of Elder Thomas Faunce is credited, by Judge John I>avis [footnote 
on page 82 of ■ England's Memorial," 5tb edition; Boston; 1826], thn pr<-srrratlon 
and idenliticai* 1'lvmouth Rock as the landing place of the Pilgrims. 



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Major William Bradford (1752-1811), aide-de-camp to General Charles 
the Revolutionary army; Col. Edward Mitchell (1716-1801) ; Judge 

am Mitchell (1769-1853), graduated at Harvard, 1789, author of 
the "History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts" (Boston, 1840); Edward 

liing Mitchell (b. 1820), professor of Biblical interpretation at Eegents 
Park Baptist College, London, president of the Baptist Theological School, 
Tan-. France, president of Roger Williams "University, Nashville, Ten- 
and later president of the Leland University, New Orleans, Louisi- 
ana : Genera] Jamea Warren (1726-1808), graduated at Harvard, 1745, 
- a member of the Colonial Assembly, and on the death of Gen- 
eral Joseph Warren at Bunker Hill, chosen to succeed him as president of 
the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts; his wife, Mercy Otis (1728- 
.1814), [great-great-grandchild of Patience (Morton) Faunce], authoress, 
and one of the most highly educated and brilliant women of her time; 
her brother, James Otis (1725-1783), the distinguished Boston lawyer, 
Revolutionary patriot and orator; Samuel Alleyne Otis (1740-1814), 
speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a member of the 
( 'ontinental CongTess, and secretary of the United States Senate ; and his 
-on, Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), speaker of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives, president of the State Senate, judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, Mayor of Boston, member of Congress and United State3 
Senator." "Morton Memoranda," Leach. Cambridge, 1894, pp. 24-25. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

2. Hon. Nathaniel Morton 2 (George 1 ). This illustrious man was 
the eldest son of George Morton, and was born the latter part of 1613, in 
l'-n, Holland. He came to New England with his father in 1623 on 
the " Ann f upon the death of his father in June, 1624, he was adopted 
\>\ Governor William Bradford, whose second wife, Mrs. Alice (Carpen- 
ter) Sonthworth, was Mrs. George Morton's sister; that benevolent man 
re his nephew the care which by the early death of his father he was 
denied, and he received an education which fitted him for the great work 
he afterwards accomplished for the colony; he was made a freeman in 
1635, and in that same year married Lydia Cooper; she d. Sept. 23-Oct. 
1. 1673; he m. (2) April 89, 1674. Ann, dau. of Richard Pritchard (who 
removed from Yarmouth to Charleston), and widow of Richard Tem- 
plar, of Charlestown; she .1. Dec. 26-Jan. 5, 1690-1. In 1645 Nathaniel 
Morton was elected clerk, or secretary, of the Colony court, and remained 
• until his death, .June 89, 1685, and to his scrupulous, faithful. 
painstaking labor- we are indebted for the good preservation of the ar- 
chil Plymouth Colony. Mr. Morton wrote the "First Beginnings 
and After Progre - of tin- Church of Christ at Plymouth, in New Eng- 
'.." which has preserved the early history of the first church established 
in Niv. England; he also wrote many verses upon occasions of public in- 
among which may be mentioned those on the death of his aunt, 
.Mr-. Alice Bradford, which are published in the Massachusetts Historical 
ion, Vol. III.. Ith series; p. fc60; but his greatest work, upon which 
fame securely rests, i- "New England's Memorial/' originally pub- 



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lished at Cambridge in 1669, and frequently referred to as "the corner 
6tone" of New England history; its accurate and full account of the trans- 
actions of the colony from 1620 to 1GG8 fully justify its claim to that 
title; it is a time-honored hook, and has long been accounted an impartial 
history of the Pilgrim fathers; seven editions of the work have been pub- 
lished. Much of its value depended, no doubt, upon the author's ao 
to the papers of Governor Bradford, as well as to the archives of the 
colony, but his education, manner of life, and intimate connection with 
the leading men in the arduous task recorded in his history, qualified him 
particularly for the work. 

Children of Xathaniel and Lydia (Cooper) Morton, all born in 
Plymouth : 

i. Bemember, b. — , 1637; m. (1) Nov. 18, 1657, Abraham Jackson: 
(i) Lydia, b. — , 1658; m. Israel Leavitt and Preserved Hall; (ii) 
Abraham, b. — ; (iii) Nathaniel, b. — ; (iv) Eleazer, b. — , 1669; 
(v) John, b. i — ; m. Abigail Woodworth, she m. (2) Preserved 
Hall. 

ii. Mer cy, b. — ; m. Nov. 18, 1657, Joseph Dunham, s. of John and 
Abigail Dunham of Plymouth; she d. before 1685, and he m. (^/ 
Esther "Wormall, and some of these are her children: (i) Eleazer, 
b. — ; (ii) Nathaniel, b. — , m. Mary Tilson; (iii) Micajah, b. 
— ; (iv) Joseph, b. — ; (v) Benaiah, b. — ; (vi) Daniel, b. — ; 
(vii) Mercy, b. — . 

iii. Hannah, b. — ; m. Nov. 27, 1666, Benjamin Bosworth, of Hull, s. of 
Benjamin Bosworth of Hingham; he m. (2) Beatrice, widow of 
Abraham Josselynn; children by Hannah: (i) Hannah, b. 1669; 
(ii) Benjamin, b. — . By Beatrice: (iii) David, b. — ; (iv) 
Hezekiab. 

iv. Lydia. b. — ; m. about 1670, George Ellison. I have found no record 
of her children. 

v. Eleazer, b. — ; d. Jan. 16, 1649. 

vi. Nathaniel, b. — ; d. Feb. 17, 1666-7. 

vii. Elizabeth, b. May 3, 1652; m. Dec. 7, 1670, Nathaniel Bosworth of 
Hull, son of Benjamin Bosworth of Hingham; her death before 
1685 and honorable burial are mentioned in the colony records; 
her children: (i) Nathaniel, b. — , 1673; (ii) Elizabeth, b. — , 
1676; (iii) John, b. — , 1678; (iv) Samuel, b. — , 1680; (v) Mary, 
b. — , 1682; (vi) Ephraim, b. — , 1684; (vii) Lemuel, b. — , 1686; 
(viii) Joseph, b. — , 1689; (ix) Bridget, b. — , 1691; (x) Jeremiah, 
b. — , 1693. 

viii. Joanna, b. Nov. 9-19, 1654; m. Dec. 7, 1670, Joseph Prince of Hull, 
b. 1642-3, son of John and Alice (Honour) Prince; he d. at Quebec 
in 1695. Children: (i) Joanna, in. John Lothrop of Barnstable; 
(ii) Lydia, b. 1685; (iii) Joseph, b. — , d. 1694. 

3. Hon. John Morton* 2 (George 1 ). Born at Leyden, Holland, 161*;, 
came to Plymouth with his parents on the "Ann" in 1623; upon the 
death of his father he was probably adopted by Governor Bradford ; 

m. about 1648, Lettice *; he d. Oct. 3, 1673; she m. (2) Andrew 

King, father of Mary Ring, who married Lettice Morton- son John: he 
was admitted a freeman of the colony June 7, 1648; chosen constable for 
Plymouth in 1654; a member of the grand inquest of Plymouth county 



"Leach, in his "Morton Memoranda." says it is possible t lint Mr*. John 
Morton's maiden name was Lettice IIanford,*$vidow of Kdward Poster, Esq., of 
Scituate, and niece of Hon. Timothy Batherly of the same place. 



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,n 1660: deputy to the General Court in 1662; tax assessor, 1664; select- 
man. 1666; collector of excise, 1668. In 1670 he removed to Middleboro, 
Ma-., in Plymouth County, of which place he was one of the twenty-six 

inal proprietors and founders. He was the town's first representative 
to the Massachusetts General Court and held the office until his death. 
In Leach's "Morton Memoranda" is a picture of the residence of John 
Morton in Middleboro. The colonial records state that he was a "godly 
man." and tlial his death was much lamented by the inhabitants of Mid- 
dleboro. 

Children of John and Lettice Morton, all born in Plymouth, 
i. JOHN, b. Dec. 11, 1649; d. Dec. 20, 1649. 

5. ii. Jonx. b. Dec. 21, 1650. 

iii. DKBOEAH, b. — ; m. 1687, Francis Coombs, son of John and Sarah 
(Cuthbert) Coombs, of Plymouth, 1633; I have no record of her 
children. 

iv. Mary, b. — . 

v. Martha, b. — . 

vi. Hannah, b. — ; in. 1666, John Fuller. 

vii. Esther, b. — . 

6. viii. Manasseh, b. June 7, 1653. 

7. ix. EPHRAIM, b. June 7, 1653. 

Of these last named children, twins, I have been unable to secure any 
further information. 

1. Hon. Epheaim Morton 2 (George 1 ). Born in 1623, on the ship 
"Ann," on the passage to New England; upon his father's death probably 
adopted by Governor Bradford; m. Nov. 18-28, 1644, Ann Cooper, who, 
Savage says. [., |>. 154, was Ids cousin, dau. of John Cooper, of Scituate, 
Ma-., and Priscilla (Carpenter) Wright, widow of William Wright, and 
Bister of Jnliana (Carpenter) Morton; she d. Sept. 1-10, 1691; m. (2) 
1692, Mary, widow of William Harlow, and dau. of Robert Shelley, of 
Scitoate; made a freeman of the colony June 7, 1648; constable for 
Plymouth, 1648; member of the grand inquest, 1654; in 165? elected a 
representative to the Plymouth General Court and was a member for 
twenty-eight years; in L691-2 Plymouth was merged into Massachusetts 
and lie was chosen one of the first representatives to the General Court; 
head of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth for nearly twenty-five years; 
magistrate of the colony in 1683; at the time of his death he was a justice 
of the Court of Common Pleas; he was sergeant of the Plymouth military 
company, and in 1664 was elected lieutenant, and in 1671 was chosen a 
member of the "Council of War." in which he was of much service for 
many years, including the time of King Philip's War; for many years 
a deacon of the Plymouth Church, having been chosen August 1, 
l 669, and Berving until Ins death, Sept. 7, 1693. His widow m. (3) Hugh 
Cole*, in 1698. Hie will is printed in full in the "Genealogical Adver- 
ti-cr," ami reads : 

Will of Bpbnum Morton, senr. of Plymouth, <late«l Sept. 27, 1693, proved Not. 
. 1693, in- "being weak of Body througb sickness." 

To *ife Mary Morton £1(1 out of the personal estate; to son Nathaniel £10; to 
. M. r Patience, wife of John Nelson, £5; to daughter Mercy Morton £20; to 

• Ultt ii.iih "Bridftirater." 



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son George 30 acres given me by the town of Plymouth OD the smith side Of the 
Eele River, also the best of m v wearing apparell; to son .Tosiah one fourth iuv 
lands in Sagaquash; to my two sons Nathaniel and Thomaa :>il my right to ■ tnu-t 
of land in Middleboro; to son Thomas lauds; to WO dieter l&ndfl in Middleboro; 
when the legacies are paid, the rest of my personal estate, whether at Plymouth 
or elsewhere, shall be equally divided between my three sons, Nathaniel, Thomas 
and Eliezer, "I having disposed already unto all the Reel of my children BUCO :i 
part to each of them of my estate as I have thought fitt to be their full portion;" 
son Nathaniel to be sole executor. 

This will was witnessed by Ephraim Morton Junr., Thomaa Fannce and 
Joseph Fannce, who all made oath to said will Nov. 2, 1693. 

The inventory of the estate of Lieut. Ephraim Morton, late of Ply- 
mouth, taken Nov. 1, 1693, by Eliezer Churchill and Thomaa Fannce, 
was sworn to in court by Nathaniel Morton, KTov. ".'. 1693. 

The marriage covenant between Ephraim Morton, of Plymouth, and 
Mrs. Mary Harlow, widow of Mr. William Harlow, deceased, of said 
Plymouth, dated Oct. ll. and acknowledged Oct. 19, L692, provided: 
She is to have her righl of dower in the estate of her late husband, and 
is to quitclaim her rights to the estate of said Ephraim Morton if she sur- 
vive him. Witnessed by Thomas Faunee and Jon Faunce. 

Children of Ephraim and Ann Morton: 

George, b. — , 1645 

Ephraim, b. Jan. 27, 1648. 

Rebecca, b. Mar. 15, 1051. 

JOSIAH, b. — , 1653. 

Mercy, b. — . 

Nathaniel, b. — . 

Elkazer, b. — , 1659. 

Thomas, b. 1667. «*. 

Patience, b. — ; m. May 4, 1693, as 3rd wife, John, son of William 
and Martha (Ford) Nelson, one of the proprietors of Middlebor- 
ongh. Her children: (i) Lydia, b. — , 1694; (ii) Sarah, b. — , 
1695. 

It is said that one of these daughters, whether M!erci or Rebecca is 
not known, married William Davie, of Plymouth. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

5. John Morton 8 (John 2 , George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, liaaa., 
Dec. 21, 1650; d. Mar. SO, 1718: m. aboul L680, Phebe, dan. of Jonathan 
Shaw; she d. — , and he in. (2) at Middleboro, aboul L687, Mary, dau. 
of Andrew and Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, granddaughter of Stephen 

and Elizabeth Hopkins, of the Mayflower. To him is due the establish- 
ment of what is believed to he the firal absolutely tree public school in 
America, which he "erected and kept" at Plymouth in 1671, "for the edu- 
cation of children and youth.*' 

Children by Phebe, horn at Middleboro: 

i. Joanna, b. Feb., 1682; m. at Middleboro, July 3, 1705, Blishi 
Vanghan. 

ii. Phebe, b. July 7, 1685; m. 171'.'. .John Mordock. 



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Children by Mary, born at Middleboro : 

iii. Mary, b. Dec. 15, 1689; m. — , 1711, Joseph Hall. 

14. iv. John, b. June, 1693. 

v. Hannah, b. Sept. 1, 1694; m. John Cook. 

15. Ti. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 19, 1696. 

vii. Deborah, b. Sept. 15, 1698; m. Caleb Stetson. 

viii. Persis, b. Nov. 27, 1700. 

6. Manasseh Morton (John, George). Born June 7, 1653; [I have 
been unable to secure any further information of this person, or of his 
twin brother, who follows]. 

7. Ephraim Morton (John, George). Born June 7, 1653. 

8. Dea. George Morton 3 (Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, 
Mas6., — , 1645; m.* Dec. 22, 1664, Joanna, dau. of Ephraim and. Joanna 
(Rawlins) Kempton, who appeared at Plymouth in 1643; she was b. — , 
1645, and d. June, 1728; he d. Aug. 2, 1727. He was one of the original 
purchasers of Dartmouth in 1652. He sleeps on the summit of Burial 
Hill at Plymouth, with this inscription on the stone : "Here lyes ye Body 
of Deacon George Morton, who Deed August ye 2nd, 1727, in ye 82d 
year of his Age." She also sleeps on Burial Hill, the inscription reading: 
"Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Joanna, wife to Deacon Morton, who deed 
June ye — , 1728, in ye 83 year of her age." 

Just at the summit of Burial Hill, and at a point to which the long 
flight of steps going up from the town naturally leads the visitor, is a 
row of four stones, made of slate, marking the graves of Deacon George 
Morton, his youngest son Thomas, his wife Joanna, and his brother 
Ephraim. That of George Morton has been bound in metal to preserve it 
from the effects of the weather, and to prevent its being broken by thought- 
less persons who desire relics of this interesting spot. 

Children of George and Joanna Morton: 

Hannah, b. Nov. 26, 1666; m. Ephraim Morton. 

.Manasseh, b. Feb. 3, 1669. 

Ephraim, b. Apr. 12, 1671. 

Joanna, b. June 27, 1673; m. Thomas Holmes. 

Ruth, b. Dec. 21, 1676; m. Stephen Barnaby. 

George, b. July 16, 1679. 

Timothy, b. Mar. 12, 1682. 

Rebecca, b. July 18, 1684; m. Nicholas Drew. 

Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1686; m. Havilind Torrey. 

Thomas, b. July 2, 1690. 

Ephraxm Morton 3 (Ephraim,', George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, Jan. 

1648; m. about 1665-6 to Hannah Finney, b. — , 1657; d. Feb. 18, 

1731-2; is buried on Burial Hill, Plymouth, the inscription on his grave- 

Btone being: "'Here lyes ye body of Mr. Ephraim Morton who deed Febry 

ye 18th L731-2 in ye 84th year of his age." 

Children of Ephraim and Hannah Morton: 

i. Hannah, b. Nov. 7, 1677; m. Benjamin Warren. [N. E. Gen. Reg. 
Vol. 60, p. 67, says she m. Benjamin Morton.] 

"In the Plymouth Records there is recorded the death on May 22, 1663, of 
Phoebe, wife <>f George Morton, aged 18. She may have been Dea. George Mor- 
t> ii '>- tirM wife. 





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nortbor 8, hrala Morton 8 1 

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"Tho i'ilgrbrT, who was in Ptyaouth, Haas* bof ore 
1638, taring cone from England with Mother 
Finney" and her daughter, Catherine, and eons 

art and Johr* hi d at Flyswuth, -_pril 22, 
1650 # a*ed ow 80 years.* J6ha Phlrua;' ;aar- 
riad (1) Christie d Plyaouth, Ucpt. 9, 

l(Ad$ n. (2) Barnstable, Juno 10, I , Mrs, 
Abigail, widow of Henry Ceggln, and deu. of 
John Bishop of England, who was burbled Bam- 
stable, lay 6, 1665 1 n, (3) Barnstuble, /one 
26, 1654, rllsaboth Bayley, who was bur* Bristol, 
H.I., Fob. 9, IQSoVi* recti-red granti of 
land In . », 1040, 1641j Freesmn, 

1644, idBOisomn 1846-i5 # At Bristol before 1653, 
whore ho was oensteble, froeaan May 89, 1G70. 

one ttae liwed a 4 *oate« Joined a oob»- 
pany -which settled Bristol, £• I. f 1800, tel - 
Jug his Interest to son Jonathan 1882* Appeer- 
04 Swansea 1702 - -p , 

Worn Andres* collection Mol Jamil*, 9«§Mf 
in ManiftS-%or* scti&V at Now fctagland 

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Epjikaim, b. Oct. 31, 1678. 
John, b. July 20, 1680. 
Joseph, b. Mar. 4, 1683. 

Ebeni :,kk, b. Apr. 11, 1685. 

10. Josiaii Morton 3 (Ephraim*, George |. Born al Plymouth, Mass., 
— , 1653; d. 1694; m. — , 1686, Susanna Wood or Ward, of Middleboro; 

his widow married a Deacon Clark. 

Children of Josiah and Susannah Morton : 

i. Susannah, b. Feb. 1. L686j d. Mar. I, L687. 

25. ii. JOSIAH, b. Apr. 13, K''^ s . 

iii. Susannah, b. Sept. 1, 1690; m. Ephraim Morton. 

26. iv. Henry, b. Jan. 7, 1692; d. Nov. — , 1697. 

11. Lieut. Nathaniel Morton 3 (Ephraim'-, George 1 ). Born — ; d. 
1709; m. — , 1706, Mary, dau. of Joseph and Judith (Packard) Faunce, b. 
— , 1681. 

"Nathaniel Morton died leaving only one child named Nathl who died 
when young leaving also only one child whose name was Nathaniel who 
was the father of the present Mrs. Kebecca Davis, wife of Win. Davis." 
[Thomas Morton, of Plymouth, writing in 1807.] His widow in. (2) 
Joseph Hall, and d. May 31, 1761, aged 80. 

27. i. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 5, 1706. 

12. Eleazer Morton 3 (Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, 
Mass., 1659; m. at Boston, by Pev. Samuel WiUard, April 11, 1692, Ke- 
becca Dawes Marshall, b. Feb. 25, 1661, dau. of Benjamin and Rebecca 
Marshall, granddaughter of John Marshall, who came in the "Hopewell," 
1635, aged 14, and settled in Boston; received from his father by will shown 
in the Plymouth Records, dated Sept. 27-Oct. 6, 1693, all his interest in 
the 16 shilling purchase, so-called, in Middleborough, and one-third of his 
residual personal estate. She d. Nov. 6, 1730, and is interred on Burial 
Hill in Plymouth. 

"Eleazer Morton died leaving 3 children one son and two daughters. 
His son's name was Nathaniel and was the father of Deacon Ichabod Mor- 
ton of Middleborough." [Thomas Morton, of Plymouth, writing in 1807.] 

28. i. Eleazer, b. Jan. 8, 1693. 

ii. Ann, b. May 19, 1694; m. Eobert Finney, who died in a military ex- 
pedition to Canada. 

29. iii. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 24, 1695. 

iv. Eebecca, b. Apr. 9, 1703; may be the Bebecca Morton, of Plymouth, 
who m. Walter Bitch at Boston, June 29, 17:.2. 

13. Thomas Morton 3 (Ephraim-, George 1 ). Born at Plymouth. 
Mass., — , 1667,; m. Dec. 23, 1696, his cousin, Martha Doty. dau. of Edward 
Doty and Sarah Faunce, 1). at Plymouth, July 9, 1671; he resided in 
Plymouth and was noted for his integrity: was a town officer for many 

years. 

30. i. Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1700. 

ii. Lydia, b. Nov. 15, 1702; m. Benjamin Bartlett, son of Joseph ami 
Lydia (Griswold) Bartlett. 

31. iii. Lemuel, b. Oct. 21, 1704; d. young. 

iv. Sarah, b. July 6, 1706; m. 1737, Joseph Bartlett. b. 1704, son of 
Robert and Sarah Bartlett, and had: (i) Sara',. I». 1737 j (u) 
Joseph, b. 1738; (iii) Thomas, b. 1742; (iv) Josiah, b. 1744; (v) 
Martha, b. 1747; (vi) Hannah, b. 1749. 






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32. v. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 2, 1710. 

vi. Mary, b. Aug. 30, 1712; m. 1732, John Nelson, son of first Samuel 
and Bathsheba (Nichols) Nelson, and had, all b. in Plymouth: 
(i) Mary, b. 1733; (ii) Lydia, b. 1734; (iii) Hannah, b. 1737; 
(iv) Samuel, b. 1739; (v) Thomas, b. 1741; (vi) John, b. 1748. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

M. John Morton 4 (John 3 , John", George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, 
Mass., June — , 1693. 

[I am unable to find any information concerning this man.] 

15. Capt. Ebenezer Morton 4 (John 3 , John 2 , George 1 ). Bom &t 
Plymouth, Mass.. Oct. 19, 1696; m. 1720, Mercy, dau. of John and Hannah 
(Stetson i Poster, of Plymouth, and great-granddaughter of Cornet Robert 
Stetson; b. 1698; d. at Middleboro, April 4, 1782. He was a prominent 
citizen, served as assessor, surveyor of highways, selectman, moderator of 
town meeting, and captain of the militia. He died May 12, 1750. 

Children, all born in Middleboro: 

i. MERCY, b. Jan. 20, 1722; d. 1802; m. — , 1737, Zachary Eddy; he d. 
1777, age 66. Children: (i) John; (ii) Mary; (iii) Ebenezer; 
(iv) Hannah; (v) Nathaniel; (vi) Mercy; (vii) Joshua; (viii) 
Zechariah; (ix) Seth; (x) Thomas; (xi) Lucy; (xii) Samuel. 

ii. Mary, b. Apr. 29, 1723; m. — , 1743, Ebenezer Spooner, and (2) Oct. 
3, 1778, Capt. Jonathan Ingell, of Taunton. 
--33. iii. John, b. Oct. 18, 1724. 
34. iv. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 27, 1726*. 

v. Hannah, b. Oct. 8, 1728; m. — , 1748, Abishai Washburn, a descend- 
ant of John Washburn, first secretary of Massachusetts., 

vi. Deborah, b. July 15, 1730; d. 1809; m. Oct., 1749, Ichabod Morton. 

vii. Seth, b. Mar. 11, 1732. 

viii. Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1734; m. 1769, John Barrows, Jr. 
36. ix. Nathaniel, b. Not. 10, 1735. 

x. Lucia, b. Jan. 7, 1738; in. — , 1755, Dr. Samuel Clark. 



"This line continues as follows: 

Ebenezer Morton 5 (Ebenezer', John', John 2 , George 1 ). Born at Middleboro, 
Mas*.. Aug. 27, 1726; m. July 23, 1753, Mrs. Sarah Cobb, b. — , 1728, d. Nov. 22, 
L781, aged 53; he d. Nov. 1, 1775. 
Children : 

i. MkrCY, b. Aug. 8, 1754; d. Feb. 28, 1755. 

ii. Ebenezer, b. Feb. 10, 1756. 

iii. Pjik.be, b. Jan. 27, 1758; m. Nov. 14, 1782, Samuel Wood; d. Oct. 4, 

18:: 1 .'. 
iv. Livy, b. Feb. 4, 1760. 
v. I-kiscii.la, b. Oct. 4, 1763; d. Feb. 19, 1847; m. May 21, 1789, Seth 

Morton, Jr. 

vi. BABAH, I'. May 14, 1765; m. — , John Doty, who was b. 1769 (?). 

Morton" (Ebenezer*, Ebenezer*, John 3 , John 2 , George 1 ). Born at Mid- 

rileboro, Mara., Feb. 4, 1760; d. at Middleboro July 19, 1838; m. (1) Mar. 13, 1788, 

Hannah Dailey, I). Nov. 15, 1760, d. Sept. 4, 1806-7, dau. of Daniel and Hannah 

Dailey, of Easton ; m. (2) in 1808, Catherine, dau. of Stephen and Hannah (Beals) 

Bichmond, who .1. Scj.t. <!. 1849. He removed to Winthrop, Me., where his children 

horn and Where he was a founder of the Congregational church, but subse- 

Hv returned to Middleboro. He served in the Revolutionary war, in the second 

foot company, CoL Sprout's regiment, Massachusetts militia, in service Dec, 1776, 



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16. Manasseii Morton 4 (George*, Ephraim*, George 1 ). Horn at 
Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 3, 1669; m. — , .Mary, dau. of Capt. Thomas and 



in the Beacoast defense of Rhode Island; Auj;., 1780, in Col. White's regiment, 
nulitia, also in service; served on two alarms in May and Sept.. 177s. 
Children : 
By wife Hannah: 

i. Daniel Oliver, b. Dec. 21, 1788. 

ii. Joseph Warren, b. Aug. 25, 1793; served in the war of 1812, and 

d. unmarried, in the army at Greenbush, N. Y., 1813. 
iii. Lendell Pitts, b. Mar. 22, 1796. 
Bv wife Catherine: 

ii. Hannah Dailey, b. Aug. 28, 1809; m. Mar. 20, L834, Horatio N. 

Wilbur, of Middleboro; d. July 26, 1846. 
iii. Catherine Richmond, b. May 29, 1811; d. unmarried. 
Rev. Daniel Oliver Morton, A. M. 7 (iAvtf, Ebent :< r. Ebi . ■'■ !m\ John 2 , 

George 1 ). Born at Winthrop, Me., Dec 21, 1788; d. Bristol, N. H., Mar. 25, 1852; 
di. at Pittsfield, Vt., Aug. 30, 1814, Lucretia, dau. of Rev. Justin and Electa 
(Frary) Parsons, b. Goshen, July 26, 1789; d. at Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1862.* In 
3 812 Mr. Morton was graduated from Middlebury College; ordained to the min- 
istry June 30, 1814, as pastor of the Congregational church at Shoreham, Vt., where 
he remained 17 years; dismissed at his own request Oct. 13, 1831; for nearly a 
year was secretary of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society; in 1832 was in- 
stalled pastor of the Congregational church at Springfield, Vt., where he remained 
five years; was for the next five years pastor of the church in Winchendon, Mass. ; 
he then spent a few months at a peace agency, preached six months at Monroe, 
Mich., and was in 1842 installed as pastor of the church in Bristol, N. EL, where 
he remained until his death. 

Children, all born at Shoreham, Vt. : 

i. Daniel Oliver, b. Nov. 8, 1815. 

ii. Lucretia Parsons, b. Jan. 20, 1817; d. at Philadelphia, June 9, 1886; 
m. Sept. 7, 1842, at Shawneetown. 111., Rev. Myron Webb, son of 
Capt. John and Elizabeth (Montague) Safford, l>. < ambridge, Vt.. 
Jan. 18, 1812, d. Morganfield, Kv.. Dec. 10, 1862. Children: (i) 
Henry, b. Morganfield, Ky., Nov. 15, 1843, d. July 20, 1S45; (ii) 
a son, b. June 13, 1S46, d. June 15, 1846; (iii) Laura Elizabeth, 
b. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 28, 1847; (iv) Mary Lucretia, b. Evans- 
ville, Ind., Dec. 6, 1»49, d. Aug. 16, 1*51; (v) Edwin Morton, b. 
Evansville, Ind., Dec. 20, 1851, d. Aug. 30, 1S77; (vi) Anne, b. 
Dec. 6, 1857, d. Apr. 10, 1862. 

iii. Electa Frary, b. May 28, 1820; m. as second wife, at Bristol. X. 
EL, May 7, 1849, Jonas Minot, b. Sutton. X. EL, Sept. 17, 1812: 
d. Clarkson, N. V., Oct. 27, 1891. Children, all horn at Clarkson, 
N. Y.: (i) Anna B., b. Mar. 22, 1850; (ii) Electa Morton, b. July 
23, 1851; (iii) donas, b. June 18, 1853; (iv) Daniel Morton, b. 
Dec. 5, 1855; (v) Mary Lucretia, b. Nov. 16, 1 >59. 
— iv. Levi Parsons, b. May 16, 1824. 

v. Mart, b. May 5, I s -!'; m. at New York, Feb. 27, 1856, Bon. William 
P., son of Hon. George and Eliza Seymour (Perkins) Griune]], of 
Greenfield, Mass.. b. 1831. Children: (i) William Morton, b. 
New York, Feb. 27. 1857; (ii) Marv Lucretia. b. New York, dune 
23, 1858; (iii) Richard B., b. in England, Jan. 30, I860; (iv) 
Ethel Mortou, b. New York, Feb. 14. 1872. 

vi. Martha, b. May 5, 1829; m. at Bristol, X. EL, Ang. B, 1852, Rev. 
Alanson, son of James Bray and Lncinda (Biggs) Hart pence, b. 
Harrison, O., Sept. 23, 1823, d. Philadelphia. Mar. 5. 1870. Chil- 
dren: (i) Mary Lucretia, b. Lafayette. Ind.. Aug. 8, 1S53; (ii) 



• Mrs. Daniel O. Morton was a descendant of Cornet Joseph Parsons. For her family 
i see Leach's "Morton Memoranda." page 80. 



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Mary (Thompson) Taber (granddaughter of Francis Cooke, the May- 
flower pilgrim), New Bedford. 

Alanson Morton, b. Milan, O., April 22, 1855, d. New York City, 

Sept. 10, 1855; (iii) Lucy Morton, b. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 13/ 

1856; (iv) Martha Ella, b. Dec. 24, 1859. 

Hon. Daniel Oliver Morton 8 (Daniel Oliver 1 , Lirif, Ebenezer*, Ebenezcr 4 ; 

John', John 3 , George 1 ). Born at Shoreham, Vt., Nov. 8, 1815; d. Toledo, O., Dec. 

5, 1857; m. at Ohio City, 0., Dec. 31, 1S39, Elizabeth, dau. of B. F. Tyler, b. May> 

2, 1817; d. Sept. 25, 1873. Mr. Morton was graduated with honor from Middleburyt 

College, Vt., in the class of 1833; studied law in Cleveland, O.; upon admission to> 

the bar removed to Toledo, where he engaged in the practice of law; appointed 

by President Pierce United States attorney for Ohio and served four years; was 

one of the codifiers of the laws of Ohio under the new constitution. 

Children, all born in Toledo, O. : 

i. Elizabeth Tyler, b. May 6, 1842; d. at Toledo, Sept. 10, 1843. 

ii. Marcus Fred, b. Apr. 21, 1844; d. Apr. 4, 1848. 

iii. Mary E., b. Mar. 8, 1845; d. Feb. 12, 1865. 

iv. Levi Frank, b. Aug. 17, 1848. 

v. George Deloss, b. Nov. 13, 1850; d. Aug. 23, 1852. 

vi. De Lene Lucy, b. Apr. 21, 1854; m. New York City, Jan. 7, 1874, 
Ernest Chaplin, of London, Eng. 

vii. Daniel Oliver, b. Jan. 23, 1857; d. Dec. 6, 1863. 
Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, LL. D. 8 (Daniel Oliver 7 , Livy 6 , Ebenezer*, Ebenezcr*, 
John', John 2 , George 1 .) Born at Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824; m. at Flatlands, 
Long Island, (1) Oct. 15, 1856, Lucy, dau. of Elijah H. and Sarah Wetmore (Hins- 
dale) Kimball, b. July 22, 1836, d. July 11, 1871; m. (2) Anna Livingston Read,* 
dau. of William Ingraham and Susan (Kearney) Street. Early in life Mr. Morton 
determined to engage in mercantile pursuits, became a merchant's clerk and later 
went into business in Hanover, N. H., where he remained until 1850, when he en- 
tered the dry goods firm of Beebe, Morgan & Co., in Boston. In 1851 Mr. Morton 
went to New York as resident partner and manager of a branch establishment in 
that city. He withdrew from the firm Jan. 1, 1854, to form the dry goods commis- 
sion firm of Morton & Grinnell; in 1863 he established the banking firm of L. P. 
Morton & Co. in New York and L. P. Morton, Burns & Co. in London; in 1869 the 
firm became Morton, Bliss & Co. in New York and Morton, Eose & Co. In 1878 
Mr. Morton was appointed by President Hayes honorary commissioner to the Paris 
exposition; in 1879 he entered congress as a republican from the Eleventh congres- 
sional district of New York; re-elected in 1880; appointed by President Garfield 
as minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to France; in 1882 president 
of the Monetary Conference which met at Paris; in 1888 nominated by the national 
republican convention to be vice-president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, 
• •f Indiana, being the nominee for the presidency; he entered upon his duties 
March 4, 1889, and discharged them with marked ability. Middlebury College, in j 
his native state, conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him, and was followed by 
Dartmouth College in 1882; he is a member of the Union, Union League, Metro- 
politan, Ontury and Lawyer's Clubs of New York, the Metropolitan Club, of Wash- 
ington, the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Society of Mayflower Descend- 
ants, of the Historical Society, and American Geographical Society of New York, 
of tin- New England Historic and Genealogical Society, etc. Has a residence at 
hi Fifth avenue. New York, and a country seat known as "Ellerslie" at Rhinecliff- 
on-thr- Hudson. " 

• 'liil.lren: 

i. Edith Livingston, b. Newport, R. I., June 20, 1874; m. in New York 
City, April 30, 1900, "William Corcoran Eustis, who was born in 
Paiis, July 20, 1862. His father was George Eustis and his mother 



• A demendant of Robert Livingston, first lord of the Manor of Livingston In New 
t, lit In turn helng the l!2nd generation In ' 
• ccordlng to Itrownlng's "Americans of Koyal 



York, he In turn being the 22nd generation In descent from wTfilanfl., king"of~Englajttd, 
jrdlng to Urownlng's "Americans of Koyal Descent." 



40. 


i. 


41. 


ii. 


42. 


iii. 


43. 


iv. 


44. 


v. 


45. 


vi. 



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Children of Manesseh and Mary Morton : 
i. Elizabeth, b. Plymouth, July 10, 1704. 

37. ii. Zki'Iianiah, b. Plymouth, Jan. 6, 1707. 

38. iii. Taber, b. Mar. 3, 1709 (mentioned in father's will. See "Signer! 
Mayflower Compact," part 3, p. 21. 

iv. Ruth, b. at New Bedford (?), 1714. 

39. v. Seth, b. at New Bedford (?), 1722. 

17. Ephraim Morton 4 (George 3 , Ephraim,-, George 1 ). Born at Ply- 
mouth, Mass., Apr. 12, 1671 ; m. about 1698, Hannah Morton, b. Nov. 26, 
1666, dau. of George and Joanna (Kempton) Morton. 

Children, born at Plymouth: 

Samuel, b. Jan. 2, 1698-9. 

Elkanah, b. last Oct., 1702. 

Benjamin, b. first Oct., 1705. 

Elisha, b. Jan. 15, 1710-11; d. Oct. 23, 1726. 

Cornelius, b. Aug. 18, 1713*. 

Ebenezer, b. Not. 25, 1715f. 

was Harriet Louise Morris Corcoran. Their children are: (i) Helen 
Louise Corcoran Eustis, born in New York City, Nov. 3, 1902; and 
(ii) Margaret Morton Eustis, born in Washington, D. C, Dec. 31, 
1903. 

ii. Lena Kearney, b. Newport, May 20, 1875; d. in Paris, France, June 
10, 1904. 

iii. Helen Stuyvesant, b. Newport, Aug. 2, 1876; married in London, 
Oct. 5, 1901, Paul-Louis-Marie-Archambauld-Boson, Count de Talley- 
rand-Perigord, and Due de Valencay, who was born in Paris, July 
20, 1867. His father was Charles-Guillaume-Frederic-Boson de Tal- 
leyrand-Perigord, Due de Talleyrand et Sagan, and his mother was 
Jeanne-Marguerite des barons Seilliere. They have no children. 

t. Alice, b. New York, Mar. 23, 1879; married in New York City, Feb. 
18, 1902, Winthrop Eutherfurd, who was born in New York City, 
Feb. 4, 1862. His father was Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, and his 
mother was Margaret Stuyvesant Chanler. They have one son: 
Lewis Morton Rutherfurd, born in Newport, August 4, 1903. 

vi. Mary, b. Newport, June 11, 1881. 

44. 'Cornelius Morton 5 (Ephraim*, George*, Ephraim", George 1 ). Born 
Aug. 18, 1713; m. — , Jane Johnson, b. — , 1716; they removed to Friendship, Maine, 
about 1743, one of the twenty-two families who settled there before 1754. She was 
the dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Cook) Johnson, granddaughter of Caleb Cook, 
who was son of Jacob Cook and Damarious Hopkins. He was son of Francis Cook 
and she was dau. of Stephen Hopkins, both of whom came in the "Mayflower." 

Children : 

i. Cornelius, b. Sept. 1, 1740. 

ii. Robert, b. — ; d. Apr. 10, 1742. 

iii. Meriah, b. — ; d. Apr. 24, 1742. 

^ jv. Joshua, b. Sept. 10, 1743. 

v. Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1745-6.' 

vi. Deborah, b. Feb. 27, 1702; m. Robert Jameson, of Friendship. 

45. fEBENEZER Morton 5 (Ephraim*, G*orgi~, Ephraim-, George*). Born at 
Kingston, Mass., Nov. 25, 1715; d. at Friendship, Me., 1810 j m. May 5, 1743, Su- 
sanna Holmes; she also d. at Friendship. 

Children : 

i. Kenelm, b. Feb. 25, 1743; d. Sept. 17, 1745. 

ii. Ebenezer, b. June 26, 1746. 

iii. Zenith, b. Jan. 21, 1748-9; d. — , 1749. 



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is. <;koi;<;k Morton" (George*, Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Ply- 
mouth. Mass., July 16, 1679; m. — , Rebecca Churchill. 

Children: 

46. i. ZlPHANIAH, b. 1715. 

47. ii. William, b. 1717. 

48. iii. Ceorcje, b. 1720. 
ir. Rebecca, b. 1724. 

19. Timothy Morton 4 (George s , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Bom at Ply- 
mouth. Mass., Mar. 12, 1682; m. (1) — , 1712, Mary Kickard, she d. 
Mar. 22. 1735. and is interred on Burial Hill, Plymouth; he m. (2) per- 
haps. Sarah Wilson in 1 7 ;> T . (Davis in "Landmarks of Plymouth," says 
"Mrs. Mercy Wilson." The Kingston record says he married Mary Wilson, 
Dec. 15, 1737.) 

Children : 



49. 


i. 


Charles, b. — , 1714. 


50. 


ii. 


John, b. — , 1716. 


51. 


iii. 


Job, b. — , 1719. 




iv. 


Mary, b. — , 1722; in. Thomas Foster. 


52. 


v. 


Silas, b. — , 1727. 




vi. 


Elizabeth, b. — , 1732; d. May 3, 1734 





i. 


53. 


ii. 


54. 


iii. 


55. 


iv. 


50". 


v. 




vi. 




vii. 


57. 


▼iii 




ix. 



20. Thomas Morton* (George, 3 Ephraim, 2 George 1 ). Born at Ply- 
mouth, Mass., July 2, 1690; m. — , 1722, Abigail Pratt; he d. March 8, 
1738, and is interred on Burial Hill in Plymouth, between the graves of his 
father, George Morton, and his mother, Joanna Morton. 

Children : 

RUTH, b. — , 1723; in. Wm. Holmes. 

Isaac, b. — , 1725. 

Jonathan, b. — , 1726. 

Thomas, b. — , 1728. 

SyLVANUS, b. — , 1730. 

A i; n ; ail, b. — , 1732; m. Stephen Sampson. 

HANNAH, b. — , ]733; m. Billings Throop, of Bristol. 

Ahiel, b. — . 

Joanna, b. — . 

21. EPHEAIM Mouton 4 (Ephraim, 3 Ephraim 2 George 1 ). Born at 
Plymouth Oct 31, 1678; m. — , 1712, Susannah, dau. of Josiah and 
Susannah (Wood) Morton, b. — , 1690; "he died of the small-pox, used. 
about 54." 

Children: 

i. Susannah, b. — , 1713. 
Hannah, b. — , 1715. 

ii. b. — , 1718; in. Nathaniel Warren. 
EPHBAIM, I'. — , 1722. 

\il, b. — , 1724; m. Kzekiel Morton. 
Ii HABOD, b. — . 

JOHN MORTON 4 (Ephraim* Ephraim 2 George 1 ). Bom in Ply- 
mouth. Mass., July 80, L680; lie d. Feb. 7, 1738-9;'lies on Burial Hill, 
Plymouth; according to .-in account of the Finney family in N". E. Gen. 
I.'' 60, 67, m. — . 1706, JMiance Phinney, dau. of his uncle, John 

Phinney, oi Barnstable. Died aged 58 years. She d. Dec. 4, 1735, aged 
56 and ifi interred on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Mass. [Mitchell's "Bridge- 





iii 




It. 




V. 


59. 


\ i. 



60. 


i. 


61. 


ii. 


61'. 


in. 




IV. 


63. 


V. 


64. 


VI. 



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water" says John Morton in. Mary Fatmce, and <l. of "a grievous wound," 
and that she m. ("3) Joseph Hall, of Yarmouth.] 

Children : 

John, b. Nov. 15, 1706. 

Jonathan, b. Feb. 10, 1708; .1. Dec. 29, 1 70S. 

Josiah, b. Feb. 28, 1710. 

A son b. and d. Dec. 11, 1711. 

James, b. May 13, 1714. 

David, b. Mar. 19, 1716. 
Mary Faunce Morton, relict of John Morton, m. Dcac. Joseph Hall, b. Yar- 
mouth, 1663; d. Jan. 29, 1736-7; she .!. May 31, L761, aged 80. Children: .Mar.. 
b. Mar. 30, 1712; Peter, b. .Mav 19, 171."); John, 1>. Jan. 30, 1716-17; Barshua, b. 
July 5, 1719. 

23. Joseph Morton 4 (Ephraim*, Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Ply- 
mouth, Mass., Mar. 4, 1683; m. — , 1709, Mary Chittenden, b. Jan. — , 
1685, d. Oct. 18, 1756. She is interred on Burial Hill, Plymouth, the in- 
scription on her gravestone reading: "Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Mary 
Morton, wife to Mr. Joseph Morton, who Departed this Life Octr. ye 18th, 
1756, in ye 72d year of Her Age." He "died in an old age," and is in- 
terred on Burial Hill, Plymouth, the inscription on his gravestone being: 
"Here lyes buried ye body of Mr. Joseph Morton, who Departed this life 
Febry. ye 21th 1754 in ye 71st Year of His Age." 

Children : 

65. i. Joseph," b. Oct. 25, 1712. 

ii. Hannah, b. — , 1713; m. Jonathan Diman. 

66. iii. Ezekiel, b. — , 1718. 



* This line continues as follows : 

65. Joseph Morton 5 (Joseph*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Ply- 
mouth, Oct. 25, 1712; d. at Groton, Mass., July 26, 1793; m. (1) — , 1738, Anna 
Bullock, b. Feb. 20, 1722; d. Apr. 3, 1759, aged 37, is buried in the Granery bury- 
ing ground in Boston; m. (2) in Boston, Dec. 27, 1759, Abigail Hersey, b. 1734-5, 
d. May 9, 1751, aged 57; also buried in the Granery burying ground; he removed to 
Boston in 1757 and from 1760 to 1764 was owner of the celebrated White Horse 
Inn, on the site of the present Adams House; his will is on page 602, Vol. 92, 
records of wills in the Boston probate office, and in addition to children given below 
mentions a son Joseph, of whom there does not seem to be any record. 
Children : 

i. Perez, b. — , 1739; d. Nov. 16, 1748; buried on Burial Hill, Plymouth, 
ii. Dimond, b. — . 
iii. PEREzf, b. Oct. 22, 1750. 
iv. Hannah, b. — ; m. John Fuller, 
v. Lucy, b. — ; m. John Wright. 
vi. Abigail, b. — . 

vii. AnnaJ, b. — ; m. in Boston, Oct. 22, 1765, Ebenezer Hinckley, fifth 
in descent from Sanmol Hinckley, and fourth from Got. Thomas 
Hinckley. Ch. : (i)Joseph; (ii) John; (iii) Lacy; (iv) Anna; (v) 
Sophia ; (vi) Herman, 
viii. Joseph, b. Aug. 6, 1764. 

ix. Ephraim, b — , 1770. [There is a record in tlir Boston registrar's 
office of an Ephraim Morton, aged 2-1, who died April, IT'.M. on 
his passage from (ape of Good Hope to India. I think he may 
have been this Ephraim.] 



t For sketch of Perez Morton see footnote on next page. 

t See article on the ninckley family in N. B. Hist. & Gen. Reg., July. 1859. pp. 



208-212. 



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24. Ebknezer Morton 4 (Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at 
Plymouth. Mass., April 11, 1685; m. (1) — , Hannah Morton, dau. of 
— ; m. (2) in 1720, Mercy Foster. "Ebenezer Morton died [in Plymouth] 

Joseph Morton" (Joseph 6 , Joseph', Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born Aug. 
8, 1764; d. Oct. 13, 1843; m. Nov. 11, 1S04, Mary Wheeler, b. July 11, 1779, d. Sept. 
1U, 187U; was of Roxbury and Milton, Mass. 

i. .Mary Hersey, b. — ; m. George Thompson, 
ii. Joseph, b. — ; deceased. 

iii. Ephraim, b. — ; deceased. y 

iv. William Saxton, b. — ; deceased. 
v. William Saxton, b. Sept. 22, 1809. 

vi. Josephine Eugenia, b. — ; m. Nathaniel Foster Stafford, of Dor- 
chester, 
vii. Sarah Bradford, b. — . 
viii. Caroline Stimson, b. — ; deceased. 
ix. Abigail, b. — ; deceased. 
Hon. William Saxton Morton 7 (Joseph 9 , Joseph*, Joseph*, Ephraim 3 , Eph- 
raim 1 , George 1 ). Born at Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 22, 1809; d. at Quincy, Mass., Sept. 
21, 1871; was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N. H. ; grad. Harv. 
1831. He was warm and genial in his impulses, but had no ambition for literary 
distinction. Soon after his graduation he traveled abroad, and upon returning home 
1m igan the study of law with Sidney Bartlett, Esq., continuing his study at Hopkin- 
ton, N. H., and began practice at Amherst, N. H. In 1840 he removed to Quincy, 
Mass., where he resided until his death. He performed the duties of a magistrate, 
a commissioner in insolvency, and a trial justice; he was connected with many 
business enterprises; he was a member of the constitutional convention in 1853, 
and served several terms as Quincy 's representative to the Massachusetts general 
court; he was much interested in education, and served as a member of school com- 
mittees and as a trustee of Milton Academy. Of a decided literary taste, he pas- 
sionately loved poetry, and became personally acquainted with many poets of his 
day, and wrote many verses himself. He was m. Oct. 3, 1839, to Mary Jane Wood- 
bury (! rimes, of Francestown, N. H., a niece of Hon. Levi Woodbury. They had 
chihlren: 

i. Joseph William, b. Amherst, N. H., July 22, 1840; d. Dec. 17, 1865; 
became captain of a company in the Fourth Mass. Cavalry; was 
taken prisoner at Gainesville, Aug. 17, 1864; was marched to 
Macon, Ga., thence to Augusta, thence to Andersonville, thence to 
Charleston, and last to Columbus, where he escaped and joined the 
cavalry on Sherman's March to the sea; died as a result of his ex- 
posure and sufferings. 
ii. George Woodbury, b. May 2, 1842; served in the navy in the civil 

war. 
iii. MARY, b. June 17, 1844. 

jt. Arthur Austerfield, b. Jan. 11, d. Mar. 24, 1854. 
v. Mai:tiia Woodbury, b. Dec. 25, 1849; d. April 26, 1870. 
vi. Arthur Austerfield, b. July 22, 1855. 
vii. Sahah Josephine, b. Aug. 12, 1858. 

fHON. PlRBZ MORTON* (Jo.st/>/i 6 , Joseph*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim", George 1 ). Born 

nt Plymouth, Mass., Oct. l'-', 1750; d. Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 14, 1837. His public 

education was bad in Harvard College, graduating with the class of 1771, when 20 

and 8 months of age. He Btudied law; but the war of the Revolution prevented 

iging in the practice when he completed his studies. The subject of the contest 

v.ith England absorbed all other concerns. Mr. Morton was an ardent patriot, and 

when quite young took a decided part with the friends of civil liberty. In 1775 he 

one of the Committee of Safety for Boston, and in 1776 was appointed Deputy 

Samuel Adams, then the Secretary, being also a member of the Conti- 

ich mel ;<t Philadelphia. After a few years he opened an office 

at law in Btate Btreel in Boston, and was in extensive practice for a 



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leaving several children, all of which died or moved oul of this town" 
[Thomas Morton, writing in 1807]. 

Children by Hannah, born in Plymouth : 

i. Mary, b. — , 1711. 

67. ii. Edmund, b. — , 1713. 
iii. Patience, b. — , 1716. 

68. iv. Zacheus, b. — , 1718. 

By Mercy: 

69. v. Solomon, b. — , 1727. 

25. Josiah Morton 4 (Josiah 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Ply- 
mouth, Mass., April 13, 1688; d. May 19, 1761; m. — , 1710, Elizabeth 
Clark, his stepfather's daughter. "Died in the 74th year of his age, a 
worthy man, who, out of sixteen children, left only two alive, whose names 
were Josiah and Elizabeth.'' She d. Mar. 21, 1763, aged 71, and is in- 
terred on Burial Hill, Plymouth. He also lies there, the inscription on his 
gravestone reading: "In memory of Capt. Josiah Morton, who Deed May 
ye 19th 1761 in ye 74th year of his age." 

70. i. Henry, b. — , 1711. 

71. ii. Josiah, b. — , 1713. 

iii. Elizabeth, b. — , 1716; m. David Diman. 

iv. Euth, b. — , 1718; m. Mar. 18, 1742, Thomas Clark. 

v. Elizabeth, b. 1730; m. Daniel Diman. 

The report quoted above states that he had sixteen children and outlived 
all but Josiah and Elizabeth. I am unable to find their names. 



long period. As an eloquent writer and speaker, very few in this country have 
surpassed Mr. Morton. He always used good language and spoke with propriety 
and effect. He often had a seat in tho General Court, and was Speaker of the Massa- 
chusetts House of ^Representatives. In 1808 he was appointed Attorney General of 
Massachusetts, and continued in that important office until the year 1833, when he 
resigned on account of his advanced age and the infirm state of his health. He m. 
Feb. 24, 1871, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp, b. Aug. 29, 1759, <L Quincy, Mass., May 
14, 1846; she wrote for the Massachusetts Magazine under the pen name of 
"Philena"; her "Power of Sympathy," published in 1789, was the first American 
novel; she also wrote "Ouabi, or the Virtues of Nature," "Beacon Hill," an epic 
poem, and "My Mind and its thoughts of Nature." An article concerning her 
literary work is published in Am. Hist. Keg., Vol. I., p. 447. In 17Mt Mr. and Mr- 
Morton were living in a house in Boston on the lower corner of State and Exchange 
Sts., the former site of the Boston Custom House. The deed by which this "brick 
mansion house," as it is therein called, with land and outhouses thereto belon<,nne;. 
was conveyed to Mr. Morton (Suff. D. Lib. 148, fol. 1S9) bears the date of 1784 
The grantor was Thomas Apthorp, of London, late of Boston, who for "£150 lawful 
money of New England, conveys the property which his late father, Charles W. 
Apthorp, who was a loyalist, held." 

In April, 1776, ten months after the battle of Bunker Hill, the body of I 
Joseph Warren was found and identified. The Masonic fraternity, of which he was 
a conspicuous member, at once made arran^'tnents for the funeral cereim 
which took place at King's Chapel, April 8th. Perez Morton, then a promising 
young lawyer and a Mason, was selected to deliver the address. Prom that time he 
took rank with the leading spirits of the revolution. 

There is no record that Perez Morton had any children, bnl I am inclined to 

believe he had a son: 

i. Charles Ward Apthorp, b. Aug. 15, !."'>: a. Apr. 30, 1809; grad. 

Harv. 1804. 



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Bbnbi Morton 4 (Josiah 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born Jan. 7, 
L692; .1. \"v.. 1697. 

NATHANIEL Mobton 4 (Nathaniel 3 , Ephravm 2 , George 1 ). Born 
I ,, ( . ;, [706 ; d. — , and is buried on Burial Hill, Plymouth; 
,„. (1) — . Mcriah Clark; m. (2) Joanna, dau. of Nathan Delano. "Na- 
thaniel Morton [father of this Nathaniel] died, leaving only one child, 
named Nathaniel, who died when young, leaving also only one child, whose 
name was Nathaniel, who was the father of the present Mrs. Eebecca Davis, 
■rife of Win. Davis." Thomas Morton, of Plymouth, Avriting in 1807. 

Children: 

72. i. Nathaniel, b. — , 1731. 

7X ii. JOSIAH, b. — , J 752. 

iii. Meriah. b. — , 1758; m. John Torrey. 

it. Betty, b. — , 1770. 

28. Eleazer Morton 4 (Eleazer 3 , flphraim 2 , George 1 ). Born Jan. 8, 
1693; m. Dec. 7, 1724, Deborah Delano, a descendant of Philip Delano, a 
Walloon, of Leyden; removed from Plymouth to Stoughton, Mass., about 
1729. 

Children: 

74. i. Ambrose, b. Plymouth, — , 1725. 

75. ii. Nathaniel, b. Plymouth, — , 1727. 

76. iii. Seth, b. in Plymouth, July 17, 1729.* 



* This line, in part, continues thus: 

76. Seth Morton 5 (Eleazer 4 , Eleazer 3 , Ephravm 2 , George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, 
Mass., July 17, 1729; d. April 18, 1805; parents removed about that year to Stough- 
ton, Muss.; m. (1) May 12, 1752, Zibiah Holmes, of Dorchester; m. (2) May 6, 
1755, Abigail, dau. of Isaac and Ann Paul, of Stoughton; she was b. in Dorchester, 
MaH8., Sept. 28, 1739; she was a descendant of Bichard Paul and Margarie Turner, 
the latter supposed to be a dau. of John Turner; d. — , 1817. 

Children of Seth and Abigail: 

i. \mbrose, b. July 24, 1756. 

ii. ZIBIAH, b. May 1, 1758. 

iii. Isaac, b. Mch. 29, 1760. 

it. Ki.eazer, b. May 2, 1762. 

v. ABUiAiL, b. Mch. 16, 1764. 

vi. Hannah, b. June 22, 1766. 

vii. Beth, b. Oct. 19, 1768. 

viii. Nathaniel, b. Mch. 17, 1771. 

ix. ThADDXUB, b. May 26, 1773. 

x. Samuel Paul, b. Oct. 10, 1775. 

xi. JOHN Hancock, b. Jan. 9, 1778. 

xii. LoviCE, b. Apr. 20, 1780. 

Amhkosk MORTON* (SeW, Eleazer*, Eleazer 3 , Ephravm*, George 1 ). Born at 

ghton, Muss., July 24, 1756; d. Jan. 8, 1832; m. Dec. 13, 1781, Sarah Tolman, 

of Stoughton, dan. of Johnson and Elizabeth (Capen) Tolman, b. July 17, 1756; she 

lifth in descent from Thomas Tolman, of Dorchester.* Ambrose Morton re-, 

1 to Pompey [La Fayette], N. Y. Tie was a revolutionary soldier, a private 

I apt William Brigga' company, Col. Joseph Reed's (20th) regiment; his com- 

i any marching on the alarm of April 19, 1775; enlisted May 9, 1775, as shown by 

r roll dated Aug. 1, 177."; also shown in a company return dated at Roxbury 

• amp, Sept. 26, 177.",; also in ('apt. Simeon Leach's company, Col. Benjamin Gill's 

Bent; service five days, company marched from Stoughton March 4, 1776, at 

the time- of fortifying Dorchester Eeights. 



V K. Illst. ami On. [{<■£., July, 18C0, pp. 247-200. 



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29. Nathaniel Mobton* (Eleaxer*, Ephraim 9 , dmn/r'). Born An-. 
24, 1695, at Plymouth, Mass.; m. — ■, 1720, Rebecca dark Ellis, widon ot 

Mordecai Ellis, and dau. of Thomas Clark, l>. Plymouth, .lum- 21, 1698, 
d. in Sandwich: he was lost at sea about 1727. She married for her third 
husband a Mr. Swift, of Sandwich. 



i. John, b. Oct. 17, 1784. 

ii. Elkazeh, b. Aug. 1, 1786. 

iii. Ambrose, b. Aug. 12, 1788. 

iv. Sarah, b. Apr. 16, 1790.—— 

v. Joel, b. Nov. 9, 1791. 

vi. Lovell, b. Nov. 9, 1791. 

Ei.kazer Morton' (Ambrose", Seth*, Eleacrr\ Eleaser*, Ephraim.; George'). 
Born at Stoughton, Mass., Aug. 1, 17SG; m. Nov. 9, 1812, at Jamestown, Onondaga 
Co., N. Y., Joanna, dau. of Melvin and Joanna (Dennis) Cotton, b. lib. 23, 1785, 
seventh in descent from Rev. John and Sarah (Hawkridgei (Story) Cotton; he d. 
July 4, 1864; she d. Sept; 12, 1856; thoy are interred in the Morton eemetery of 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 

i. Sarah Maria, b. Alexandria, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1813; d. Aug. 9, 1850; 
m. May, 1832, at Medina, O., Thomas Conger: (i) Antoinette; 

(ii) -• 
ii. Charles Ambrose, b. Nov. 23, 1815; d. at St. Joseph. Mich., Aug. 

21, 1835; unmarried. 
iii. Henry Cotton, b. Alexandria, X. Y., Jan. 17, 1817. 
iv. William Edward, b. Apr. 27, 1818. 
v. George Clinton, b. at Alexandria, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1819. 
vi. Jane Elizabeth, b. Mar. 7, 1821; d. Dec. 26, 1 S-l'.» ; in. at St. Joseph, 
Mich., Dec. 16, 1842, William C. llanimill: (i) Isabell; (ii) 
Marian Cornelia; (iii) Charles; (iv) Thomas; she d. at Sacramento, 
Cal., Aug. 9, 1850. 
vii. Joanna Dennis, b. at Attica. X. V., Oct. 1". 1822; d. Nov. 27, 1849, 
at St. Joseph, Mich.; in. Dec 4, 1S44, William Raymond; one child 
d. in infancy, 
riii. James Mki.vin. b. at Attica, X. Y., Aug. 21, 1824; <L in I'alifornia in 

1849, unmarried. 

ix. Mary A<;xes, b. at Attica, N. Y., July 2."), 1K26; m. at. St. Joseph, 

Mich., Oct. 3, 1844, Samuel Augustus Raymond: (i) John Morton, 

b. May 22, 1846, d. Nov. 9, 1863, at Bull's (lap. T, mi., a soldier 

in the civil war; (ii) Marie Raymond, b. Mar. 12, 1849, d. Aug. T. 

1849; (iii) Marie Raymond, again, b. Sept. 30, 1851, m. Dr. Henry 

Gibbons, Jr., d. at San Francisco, Cal., July 2. L899, leaving six 

children; (iv) Samuel Raymond, b. .Mar. .:. 1866; ■!. May 3, 1866. 

x. Caroline Diana, b. Attica, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1828; m. al St. Joseph, 

Mich., Jan. 8, 1852, Samuel George Dana Howard: (i) Charles 

Alonzo, b. Apr. 27, 1853, d. Sept. 27, 1856; 'ii > Mary Belle, b. Dee. 

2, 1854, d. Dec 30, 1859; (iii) Frank; (iv) Carrie Louise, b. Aug. 

22, 1860, m. Henry Keith, of Chicago. 

Hon. Henry Cotton Morton" (Eleaeer*', Ambrosf, s,ih\ Eleoser*, Elcazer*, 

Ephraim 2 , George?). Born at Alexandria, X. Y., Jan. 17, L817; m. Peb. L0, 1849, 

at Bainbridge township, Mich., Josephine Stanley, dau. <>f Thomas Merwin and 

Rocksellano Taylor, b. Leroy, N. Y.. Aug. 1, 1830, d. at Benton Harbor, Mieh.. Aug. 

1, 1859; he d. at Benton Harbor. May 25, 1895, after living a very useful and 

prominent life, being one of the founders and always foremost is the upbuilding 

of that town, of which he was postmaster for twelve years; he was a memler of 

the Michigan legislature in 1862-3. 

i. James Stanley, b. Sept. 16, 18S 

ii. Charles, b. Sept. 17, 1854; d. Oct 6, 1862. 

iii. Frank Cotton, b. Feb. 25; d. Mar. 11, I 

iv. William Henry, b. July 16, 1859; d. July 10, 1878. 



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Children : 

i. Ki .1 ■ \i:i Tii, b. — , 1720. 

77. ii. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1, 1722. t 

J&, iii. ! azer, b. — , 1724. 

79. iv. h'HAUOD, b. — , 1726.J 
so. Seth. 



t This line continues: 

77. Capt. Nathaniel Morton' (Nathaniel 4 , Eleaser 6 , Ephraim*, George 1 ). Born 
..t Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 1, 1722; d. Mar. 15, 1794; m. — , 1745, Martha Tupper, 
of Sandwich, Mass.; b. — , 1724, d. July 6, 1800; dau. of Eldod, and granddaughter 
of Thomas and Anna Tupper; he lived first in Middleborough, but removed thence 
to Freetown, on the neck between Long Pond and Assawompsett and Quitticas, 
where he accumulated a large property, leaving each of his children a farm, and 
still holding four or five farms at his death. It is said the first Morton who was 
i property-holder in Freetown, was Secretary Nathaniel Morton, who with 25 others 
bought of the Indian Wamsutta and his squaw, in 1659, a large tract of land in 
what is now called the west part of Freetown; all the purchasers being freemen 
they called it the "freemen's purchase," or Freetown; they divided it into 26 
lotfl and the eighteenth fell to Nathaniel Morton who, after owning it twelve years, 
->1<1 it. The next Morton who was a property owner in Freetown was the Nathaniel 
Morton whose history we are now giving, who became owner of property in 1744; 
his home was on the road from New Bedford to Middleboro, 12 miles north of New 
Bedford and 8 miles south of Middleboro, on the east shore of Long Pond and % 
of a mile north of the present home [1904] of Charles A. Morton, only a short dis- 
tance from the one he afterwards built in which Gov. Marcus Morton was born, 
which, at this writing, is still standing. He is said (Pierce Family, Boston, 1870, p. 
LSI, footnote) to have been a lieutenant in Levi Rounsevill's Freetown company 
of minute men who responded to the call at the Lexington alarm. 

i. Rebecca, b. Sept. 28, 1747; d. May 28, 1820; m. Nathaniel Morton. 

ii. Ruth, b. July 22, 1749; d. Sept. 17, 1753. 

iii. Martha, b. Dec. 1, 1751; d. young. 

iv. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 1, 1753. 

v. Jabez, b. Sept. 16, 1755; d. Oct. 4, 1755. 

vi. Martha, b. Apr. 16, 1760; m. a Fuller and d. in Pittsfield, Vt, aged 78. 

vii. Jemima, b. Oct. — , 1763; d. July 16, 1766. 

viii. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 30, 1765; m. Elder John Lawrence; d. in 1847, 
aged 81. 

ix. Job, b. June 14, 1770. 

Hon-. Nathaniel Morton 8 (Nathaniel*, Nathaniel*, Eleazer 1 , Ephraim 1 , George 1 ). 
Born at Freetown, Jan. 1, 1753; m. Mar. 12, 1782, Mary, dau. and 3rd child of 
Kleazer Cary and Mrs. Mary (Pratt) Washburn, of Bridgewater (he was son of 
Jonathan, son of Jonathan, son of John, from Somersetshire, Eng.) ; she was b. 
\jr. 11. L766; d. Aug. 9,*1835, aged 79. Nathaniel Morton d. Nov. 18, 1832, aged 
: ' ''•• I '" Dec. 8, 1776, sergeant of Lieut. Nathaniel Morton's company in 

1 !. 1 lv..-,r,| Pope's regiment, and served 24 days in Rhode Island and six days 
It mother time; he had a good public record, both civil and military; for nearly 
forty jreexi he represented his town in the general court, or in the executive council 
>f thfl Commonwealth; he lived to see his son Marcus a member of Congress and a 
jndge of the Massachusetts supreme court. 

MAECTJS, b. Dec. 9, 1784, or Feb. 19, 1785, both dates are given. 

ii Mary, b. Sept. 28, 1785; d. Oct. 16, 1822; m. as his 2nd wife, Dec. 

30, — , Elijah Dexter, of Plympton [6th child of Dea. Elijah, of 

IS., who wan 4th ch. of Dea. Seth, who was 11th ch. 

Of Benjami] , who was 7th ch. of William, who was almost certainly 

D of " Farmer " Thomas of Lynn and Sandwich] : (i) Nathan- 

lel Morton, b. Sept. 28, 1814, d. Sept. 18, 1838, a? 24; (ii) Elijah, 

b. Au K . 81, 1816, d. Sept. 1, 1816; (iii) David Brainerd, b. Oct. 



I s« p foot not < concerning ichabod on page 29. 



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30. Thomas Morton 4 (Thomas', Ephraim*, Qeorgt Born Feb. 

12, 1700, at Plymouth, Mass.; in. 1726, Eannafa kelson, b. 1707, <lau. of 



18, 1S17, d. same day; (iv) Henry Martya [editor of "Mourt'i 
Relation," edition of iS6f>|, I). Aug. L3, 1821, m. Nov. 19, i 
Emcline, 2nd dau. of Simeon Palmer, Boston: (i) Henry liorl 
b. July 12, 1846; (ii) Winifred, !>. July I. L849, d. aezt day; (iii) 
I.issio Clarendon, b. Au^. 20, L851, d. Dec -"'1. L861; (iv) Mar\ 
l'almer, b. Nov. 21, 1856, d. Oct. 29, L881. 
Hon Marcus Morton, LL. D. (llarv.) 7 (Natl NathanieP, Nathaniel? 

Eleazer 3 , Jiphraian?, George 1 ). Born at Freetown, Biaas., I ><■'•. '■'. 1784, or Feb. 19, 
1785, both dates being given; d. at Taunton, Mass., Feb. 6, 1864; m. Dec 2! 
< harlotte Hodges, of Taunton, Mass.; received a classical education*; graduated at 
Brown University in 1804; studied law at the law school at Litchfield, Conn.; wai 
admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Taunton; was clerk of M:i> 
in 1811; representative from Mass. in 15th Congress as a democrat; re-elected to tin 
16th Congress, defeating Francis Baylies); served from Dec. 1, l v iT. to Mar. :: 
1821; was an executive councillor of Massachusetts in 1823; wa nam 

governor of Massachusetts in 1825; judge of the Supremo Court of &£asaachui 
1825-1840; governor of Massachusetts in 1840-1841, defeating Edward Everett by 
but one vote; and again in 1843-1844; seventeen times was he the candidate <>f 
Massachusetts democrats for governor; appointed by President Polk collector of 
customs at Boston, and served from 1845 to 1N49; delegato to stal Ltntional 

convention, 1853; member state house of representatives, 1858; president of Ameri- 
can Society for the Promotion of Temperance in 1826; for thirty years lie was an 
overseer of Harvard College, and in 1840 he received from that col ige th< 
of LL. D., having received the same degree from his alma mater (Brown) in I 
An appreciative sketch of Marcus Morton was delivered to the Old Colony Historical 
Society at Taunton, Mass., by Hon. N. W. Littlefield, of Providence, Jan. 13, I 
and has been published by the society. 
Children : 

i. Joanna Maria, b. Oct. 28, 180S; d. June 7, 1878; m. William T. 
Hawes, New Bedford, who d. Oct. 3, 1859, se 53; children: (i) Ma] 
cus; (ii) John, died young; (iii) John; (iv) J'.li/.abeth. 
ii. Charlotte, b. July 9, 1810; d. Oct. 15, 1814. 

iii. Lydia Mason, b. June 29, 1812; m. Rt. Rev. Henry \V. Lee, D. D., 
Bishop of Iowa, b. Hamden, Conn., July 29, 1815; d. Davenport. 
la., Sept. 26, 1874; son of Col. Roswell Lee, of Springfield. Ma-.. 
ch. : (i) Henry; (ii) William; (iii) Caroline, 
ir. Nathaniel, b. Apr. 16, 1814; d. May 10, 1814. 

v. Charlotte, b. Apr. 19, 1815; d. Aug. 4, 1869; m. Samuel Watson, 
Nashville, Tenn.; children: (i) Alice; (ii) Anne; (iii) afareuf 
Morton; (iv) Samuel; (v) William Parsons; (vi) .Mary. 
vi. Sarah Carey, b. Mar. 31, 1817; m. Hon. Willard Lovering, Taunton; 

children: (i) Henry Morton; (ii) Charlotte. 
vii. Marcus, b. Apr. 8, 1819. 
viii. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 3, 1821; d. Feb. 12, 1856; m. Sept 29. I 

Harriet, dau. of Hon. Francis Baylies, of Taunton, b. May 4, 1823: 
left no children. 
ix. James Hodges, b. June 21, 1824; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Geo 

Ashmun, of Springfield. 
x. Susan Tillinhhast, b. Apr. 16, 1826; m. M. Day Kimball. Boston. 
xi. Frances Wood, b. Taunton, Mass., Jan. 16, 1828; m. George \\>nry 
French, b. Andover, Mass., Feb. 3, 1825, son of George and Mary 
R. French; d. in Davenport, la., Oct. i::. 1*88; she d. at. Da 
port, la., Jan. 1, 1900; children: (i) Nathaniel, b. — , judge; 
George Watson, b. — , colonel; (iii) Morton, b. — , a mining on 
gineer; (iv) Eobert Tillinghast, b. — , d. Toronto, (hit., Nov. »;. 

• Poore's Vol. lief:., p. 545. 






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Samuel and Bathsheba (Xichols) Nelson; he d. July 10, 1731, and is in- 
terred on Burial Hill in Plymouth. 



1S'J7; (t) Alice, b. Andover, Mass., Mar. 19, 1850; educated at 
Abbott Academy there. Under the pen name of "Octave Thanet" 
has written: "Knitters in the Sun," "Otto the Knight," "Expia- 
tion," "We All," "Stories of a Western Town," "A Book of 
True Lovers," "Missionary Sheriff," "The Heart of Toil," "An 
Adventure in Photography," etc. Address: 76 Sparks St., Cam- 
bridge, Mass.; (vi) Frances Morton, b. Davenport, la., Dec. 5, 1862. 
Address: Davenport, la. 
xii. EMILY Matilda, b. Nov. 10, 1831; m. Daniel C. Dawes, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Besides 161 Willoughby St., Brooklyn. 

Hon. Marcus Morton, LL. D. (Harv.) 8 {Marcus 7 , Natlmniel , Nathaniel*, Na- 
thaniel 1 , Eleaeet , Ephraim*, George 1 ). Born April 8, 1S19, at Taunton, Mass.; m. 
Providence, K. 1.. Oct. 19, 1843, Abby Bowler, of Providence, dau. of Henry and 
amy Harris (Howler) Hoppin, b. Mar. 1, 1820; d. Dec. 15, 1895. Educated at Bris- 
tol Comity Academy, Brown University, 1838; Harvard law school, 1840; entered 
Suffolk Comity bar in 1841; delegate to Massachusetts constitutional convention 
i r, 1853; member Massachusetts legislature from Andover, 1858; judge 
trior court of Suffolk County, 1858; judge of State superior court, 1859; judge 
Massachusetts supreme court, 1869; chief justice, 1882-1890; retired Aug. 27, 
1^90; given degree of LL. D. by Brown University in 1S69 and by Harvard Collego 
in 18 

i. Amv Morton, b. Philadelphia, Pa., — , 1844; m. Andover, Mass., Oct. 
16, 1866, William, son of William T. and Elizabeth (Atwater) 
Chamley. Besides 518 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Children: 
(i) William, b. Andover, Mass., Aug. 14, 1867, d. 1894; (ii) Marcus 
Morton, b. Andover, Mass., Sept. 11, 1868, d. Oct. 11, 1873; (iii) 
Elizabeth, b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 2, 1874, d. May 26, 1875; (iv) Lor- 
ania Morton, b. Chicago, 1876. 
ii. Charlotte M., b. at Boston, Mass., Nov. 4, 1845; m. at Andover, 
Mass., Nov. 8, 1869, Frank Ames, son of Bear Admiral James 
Bobert Madison Mullany, U. S. N., and Margaretta Elizabeth 
(Ames) Mullany, b. New York City, Feb. 5, 1845; reside at 5603 
Girard Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 
iii. Mary II., b. Dec. 15, 1850, at Boston, Mass.; m. Andover, Mass., Dec. 
1, 1875, Clarence, son of John and Bebecca (Cutler) Whitman, b. 
Annapolis, N. S., June 17, 1847; reside 5 E. 76th St., New York 
City; ehildren: (i) Clarence Morton, b. Feb. 14, 1877; (ii) Es- 
monde, b. Sept. 16, 18S6; (iii) Arthur McGregor, b. Oct. 12, 1879; 
(ir) Harold Cutler, b. Aug. 3, 1883; (v) Gerald, b. Feb. 6, 1890. 
iv. Abby H., b. Andover, Mass., June, 1857; m. Andover, Mass., Dec. 3, 
1883, David Bates Douglas, son of Malcolm and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Hale) Douglas, b. Waterloo, N. Y., Aug., 1858; d. Mar. 1893, at 
Denver, Colo. Mrs. Douglas resides at Newton Highlands, Mass. 
Children: (i) Sarah Hale, b. Tioga, Pa., Aug. 30, 1884; (ii) David 
Bates, b. Denver, Colo., Mar. 27, 1893. 
v. LiORANIA CARRINGTON, b. Andover, Mass., Sept. 21, 1859; resides New- 
ton Eighlands, Mass. 
vi. MARCUS, l>. Apr. 27, 1862, Andover, Mass. 

>ther line of descenl from Nathaniel 1 is through his son Job, as follows: 

II"-.. Job MOBTON* (Nathaniel', Nathaniel*, Eleazer 3 , Ephraim 1 , George 1 ). Born 

i\ Freetown, Mass., June 11, 1770; .1. Mar. 23, 1843; m. Nov. 5, 1802, Patience 

Purrington, of Middleboro, b. Apr. 2K, 1776, d. Feb. 15, 1841; lived on his de- 

ed father's land at Freetown; graduate of Brown University; a Greek scholar; 

studied medicine, but owing to failing health never practiced; was a justice of the 

peaee; land surveyor; selectman, 20 years; assessor, 27 years; school 'committee, 10 

yean; repn eotative from Freetown, 8 year.-,. 



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Children: <>"*' 

i. Bathsheba, b.\ — , 1727; m. John Biekard. 

ii. Martha, b. — , 1730 J in. Silas Morton. 



i. James Madison, b. Apr. 28, L803. 
ii. Albert Gallatin, b. Aug. 8, 1804. 
iii. Charles Austin, b. May l i. L806. 
iv. William Cray, b. Apr. LO, 1810; d. .March 8, L811. 
v. Elbrid(;e Gerry, b. Mar. 8, L808. 
vi. Andrew Jackson, b. July 12, lsl2. 
vii. William Addison, b. .Mar. 29, 1817. 

viii. Hannah T'ckkincton, b. Nov. 11. L814; d. July 12, L886j m. Apr. 
17. L843, Harrison Staples, of Lakeville, Mass., who d. July 12, 
1886; children: (i) Job Morton, b. Mar. 17. 1844, reaidee Lynn, 
.Mass.; (ii) Julia E., Jan. 14, 1S46; m. a Bassett, r< . ill.-. 

Mass.; (iii) Hon. Nathaniel Gilbert, b. Middleboro, June L, 18 
resides Lakeville, Mass.; m. Nov. 5, L902, Julia E. (Coombs) B 
away, in South Framingham, .Mass.; educated in the common X 
of Lakeville and at Pierce Academy. Middleboro; selectman, a 
sor, representative to general court, W7; child: (i) Hannah Mor- 
ton, b. Lakeville, Mar. 28, 1903. 
Jamks Madison Morton 7 (Job 9 , Nathaniel?, Nathaniel*, Eleaaei*, Ephr 
George 1 ). Born at Freetown, Mass., April 28, 1803; d. Mar. 2, 1881; m. Ma. 
1830, Sarah Maria Ann Tobey, dan. of John Tobey, b. New Bedford, Mass., Mar. 
23, 1807. d. Fall River, Mass., May 2, 1901; was pOBtmaster at Kail River, an! 
assessor for several years. 

i. James Madison, b. Fairhaven, Sept. 5, L837. 

ii. Mary Elizabeth, b. Fairhaven. June 29, 18-10; 487 Sock St., Fall 

River, Mass. 
iii. Henry Martin, b. Fall River, Sept. 9, 1843; d. Feb. 13, : 
iv. Levi Rounseville, b. Fall River, Ang. 5, 1849; d. Jan. 12, 1879. 
Hon. James Madison Morton* (James Madison 1 , .Job', Nathaniel?, Natha 
Eleazer 3 , Ephravm", George 1 ). Born at Fairhaven, Mass.. Sept. .", ls: , ,7; odui 
in the public schools of Fall River, Mass.; graduated from Brown University in 
1859; graduated from Harvard law school, 1861; admitted to the Bristol County, 
Mass., bar in 1861; appointed to the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 
1890; m. Nov. 6. 1866, Emily Frances Canedy, "b. Oct. 2\ ls;;s. Resides at 487 
Rock street, Fall River, Mass. 

i. James Madison, b. Aug. 24, 1869. 

ii. Makcaret, b. Fall River, Mass., 1870; educated in Fall River public 
schools to 1887; Vassal College, l.s«.s-l^t2: m. at Fall Kiver, Nov. 
10, 1897, to Willard Franklin Keener; resides 28 S. Lafayette St., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.; children: (i) Willard Franklin; (ii) Mor 
ton; (iii) Roger Butterfield. 
iii. Anne, b. Dec. 10, 1874; resides 487 Rock St.. Fall Kiver, M 

79. JDea. Iciiabod Morton 5 (NathanieP, Eleazer*, Ephraii <■• ■!<■'). Bom 
at Middleborough, Mass., in 1726; m. Oct. 26, 174!). Deborah, dan. of El and 

Mercy (Foster) Morton, of Middleboro, b. July 15, 17:'.": she d. Nov. 17. 1789, aped 
59; lived at Middleboro; was 10th deacon of the Congregational church there: d. 
at Middleboro May 16, 1809, aged 85; was private in Capt. Nehemiah [Morton 'sf] 
company, Col. Jeremiah Hall's regiment in the War of the Revolution; marched 
Dec. 8, 1776; in service 92 days; company marched to Bristol, R. L; also private In 
Capt. Isaac Wood's company, Col. Thomas Carpenter's regiment; in service from 
July 20, 1777, to Aug. 27. 1777, 1 mo. 6 days at Rhode Island; company was raised 
in Plymouth countv. 

i. Sarah, b. Oct. 20, 1750; m. Nov. 30, 1769, John Barrows. Jr. 

ii. Eleazer, b. Feb. 25, 17.1l'. 

iii. Elisha, b. June 12, 17"4. 

iv. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1756; d, Jan. 13, 1757. 

v. Molly, b. Nov. 8, 1758; m. Nov. 28, 1782, b-habod Cushman. 



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31. LEMUEL 4 (Thomas 3 , Ephraim", George 1 ). Born Oct. 21, 1704; 
d. young. 

Nathaniel Morton 4 (Thomas 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at 
Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 2, 1710; m. — , Mary Shaw. 

"Thomas Morton died and left a son [Nathaniel who was father of] ; 
the present Lemuel Morton is his grandson." Thomas Morton writing in 
1807, the words in brackets having been added by another hand in lead 
pencil. 

Children : 

i. Mary, b. — , 1734; m. Thomas Morton. 

He in. (2) Nov. 13, 1740, Mary Ellis. 

81. ii. Nathaniel, b. — , 1749. 

82. iii. Lemuel, b. — , 1757. 

iv. Mercy, b. — ; m. — , James Cushman, of Kingston. 

FIFTH GENEEATION. 
[From this point I follow only one line.] 

67. Capt. Edmund Morton 5 (Ebenezer 4 , Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , 
George 1 ). Born at Plymouth, Mass., — , 1713; m. at Boston, April 23, 
1740, Elizabeth Rogers, dau. of — ; was a mariner; died suddenly Jan. 9, 
1786, aged 73, at Dorchester, Mass., and is buried in the Dorchester north 
cemetery; his tombstone bears this inscription: 

In Memory 
of 
Capt. Edmund Morton 
who departed this life 
Jan. 9, 1786 
aged 73. 
]n his life he was a kind and Loving Husband, a tender Provident Parent, a 
friendly and Benevolent neighbor, Pitiful & Liberal to the Poor, needy and dis- 
tressed, Ids life useful his Death Lamented. 



\i. [OHABOD, b. Jan. 15, 1761. 

vii. John, b. Dec. 25, 1763. 

\ viii. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 26, 1765; m. 1791, Joseph Clark. 

>. ix. Deborah, b. Mar. 14, 1767. 

x. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 20, 1769. 

zi Clarke, b. May 23, 1771. 

xii. MORDBGAI, b. May 15, 1773. 

IfOEDECAl Morton" (Ichabod?, Nathaniel*, Eleazer 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born 

li.ldlcboro, May 15, 1773; d. at Winthrop, Maine, Sept. 10, 1835; m. at Middle- 

boro, Mass., Dee. 10, 1795, Priscilla Bennett, a Mayflower descendant, b. at Mid- 

dleboro, May 1, 1773; d. Brownfield, Me., Oct. 21, 1852; she was the dau. of Batche- 

)• r and Mary (Sampson) Bennett. He was an early emigrant to Maine. 

i. Alfred Bennett, b. Oct. 29, 1796. 

ii. MORDAOA] Ellis, b. Jan. 20, 1799. 

iii. Harriet, b. Mar. 5, 1801; m. Daniel Coy. 

iv. CEPHAS, b. Feb. 20, 1803; d. Sept. 18, 1822. 

\. Philander, b. Feb. 23, 1805. 

vi. Cornelius Bennett, b. at Winthrop, Me., Feb. 21, 1807. 

vii. Kdwi.n, b. Dec. 10, 1808; d. May 7, 1841. 

vni. Harrison Gray Otis, b. Oct. 20, 1810. 

ix. Mary Francis, b. Sept. 24, 1812; m. Zechariah Gibson. 

x. Adeline, b. Mar. 14, 1815; m. Samuel Tufts. 



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His will* mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and these children in this order; 

i. Edmund, m. at Boston, Oct 29, 1767, Mary Osborne, of Charlestowu, 

Mass., and had: (i) Mary, b. June 12, 1768. 
ii. Ebenezer. 
iii. Elizabeth. 
iv. Zaccheus.* 
v. Mary, b. — ; may be the Mary Morton who m. Jonathan Smith May 

5, 1773. 
vi. Hannah, b. — ; may be the Hannah Morton who m. James Whipple 

Dexter, at Boston, Dee. 5, 1771. 

Vii. SOLOMON.t 

70. viii. Isaac, b. April 18, 1754. 

ix. Patience, b. — ; m. at Boston, June 27, 1782. 
x. Sarah. 

The following is the will of Capt. Edmund Morton: 

In the name of God Amen. I Edmund Morton of Boston in the county of 
Suffolk and Provence of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Mariner, being in 
good Health of Body, and thro' the goodness of God of sound and disposing mind 
and memory, but considering the uncertainty of Life do make and ordain this my 
last will as follows: That is to say first, and Principally. 1 commit my precious and 
immortal soul into the hands of God who gave it, relying solely on his mere] 
through the merits and satisfaction of my only Lord and Saviour Jesu9 Christ for 
the pardon of all my sins and the gracious acceptance with him. 

My Body I commit to the earth to be decently interred at the discretion of 
my Executrix herein after named without doubting but at the general - Resurrection 
I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God. And for such Worldly 
Estate as it hath pleased the Lord to bless me with I will ami order that the same 
be employed and bestowed in the following manner. That is to say — 

Imprimis I will and order that all my just debts and funeral expenses be well 
and truly paid by my Executrix with all convenient speed after my decease. Item 
I give to my son Edmund and to my son Ebenezer the sum of one shilling Lawful 
Money each in full of their share in my estate. Item I give to my daughter Eliza- 
beth twenty shillings Lawful Money. To my son Zacheus, twenty shillings Lawful 
Money. To my daughter Mary twenty shillings Lawful Money, to my Daughter 
Hannah twenty shillings Lawful Money. To my son Solomon twenty shillings Law- 
ful Money to my son Isaac twenty shillings Lawful money to my daughter Patience 
twenty shillings Lawful Money, and to my Daughter Sarah twenty shillings Lawful 
Money, to be paid them by my Executors within six months after my decease. Item. 
All the rest and residue of my estate both Eeal and Personal whatsoever and where- 
soever the same is or may be found I give, Devise & Bequeath unto my dear and 
well beloved wife Elizabeth Morton to be holden by her, her Heirs and Assigns 
forever. 

Item. I do hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Elizabeth to be the sole 
executrix of this my last will hereby revoking, making null and void all former 
and other wills by me at any time hero-to-fore made, declaring this and no other to 
be my last will and testament, In witness whereof, I the said Edmund Morton have 



• No. 18,603, Vol 85, Page 30, Records of Wills, on file In the court house at Bottton, 
Mass. 

•Zaccheus Morton 5 (Edmund*, Ebenezer*, Ephraivv, Ephraim\ George). Born 
— ; m. at Boston, Mass., July 24, 1766, Rachel Ager; he was engaged in baking sea 
biscuit, and is mentioned in the Boston Directory for 1789, as having a place of 
business on Fish street. The Boston Directory for 1796 does not contain his name. 

i. Margaret, b. May 21, 1767. 

ii. Thomas, b. Jan. 9, 1771. 

t Solomon Morton 4 (Edmund*, Ebenezer*, Ephra\7n\ Ephraim', Grorpc*). Born 
at — ; m. at Boston, Mrs. Elizabeth Noyes. June 4. 1781; both were then of Dor- 
chester, Mass.; was living or doing business in Boston as late as 1805. 



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hereunto set my Hand and Seal the eighth-day of February, Anno Domini One 
thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, and in the twelfth year of His Majesty's 
Reijrn. Edmund Morton and a seal. 

The estate was inventoried and was appraised at £655, 15 sh., 9d. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

70. Capt. Isaac Morton (Edmund?, Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , 
George 1 ). Born April 18, 1754, in Boston, Mass.; m. — , 1774, Anna, 
daughter of John and Anna (Eaton) Barber, of Eeading, Mass., b. May 
1, 1755.* 

Family tradition states that he was a member of the Boston tea party, 
and was an ensign in a Boston company at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 
17, 1775. He enlisted as a private in the revolutionary army April 5, 1776, 
apparently (according to the records of the United States war department) 
in Captain Samuel Bradford's company, 23d regiment, Continental troops, 
raised in Massachusetts. "His name appears on an undated pay roll of the 
company, which shows that he received pay for September, October, No- 
vember and December, 1776, but affords no further particulars relative to 
his service." (Letter from the chief of the Eecord and Pension Office, War 
Department, Washington, D. C, June 2, 1903.) The records of the family 
also show that he served as an ensign and as a captain. While there is some 
danger of confusion in accepting the individual records of Revolutionary 
service because of there sometimes having been more than one soldier of a 
given name, when the state and national records of service agree with fam- 
ily records and traditions, there need be no fear of such confusion. The 
chief of the Record and Pension Office of the War Department also states, 
under date of June 2, 1903 : "The records also show that one Isaac Mor- 
ton served as an ensign and as a lieutenant in the Tenth Massachusetts 
Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, Revolutionary war. 
He was com missioned ensign November 6, 1776, promoted to be lieutenant 
November 1, 1777, and discharged December 4, 1777." From the records 
of Revolutionary war service in the office of the secretary of the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, certified as correct by Wm. M. Olin, secretary, 
July 2, 1903, it is learned that "Isaac Morton appears with rank of captain 
on muster and pay roll of Col. Thomas Poor's regiment. Engaged July 8, 
1778; discharged October 12, 1778; time of service, 3 months 17 days, 
including 12 days (240 miles) travel home. Company commanded by 



■ John Barber, b. June 14, 1719. 
Anna Eaton, b. Aug. 7, 1715. 
Their children: 

John Barber, b. July 30, 1742. 
ELIZABETH Barber, b. Jan. 12, 1744. 
John BABBSB, b. Sept. 20, 1745. 
Kami rSL I'.akber, b. June 1, 1747. 

Nathaniel iurber, b. May 19, 1749. 
I'knjamin Barber, b. June 22, 1751. 
Anna Barber, b. Sept. 6, 1753; d. Oct. — . 
Anna Bakhkr, b. May 1, 1755. 
Bl njamin Barber, b. July 4, 1757. 



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Lieut. Zaccheus Thayer subsequent to October 12, 1778. Begimenl rn 
for the term of 8 months from time of arrival at Peekskill."* Vol. 88, 
121. He "appears among a list of officers of Suffolk Co. militia appointed 
to command men raised for various purposes. Said Morton dctaehed for 
service at Peekskill. Commissioned July 14, 1778." Vol 28, 39. He 
"appears in an account rendered against the state of Massachusetts by said 
Morton, Captain, for state pay for service from July 11, 1778, to October 
24, 1778, 3 months 10 days, at North river. Reported a supernumerary 
officer." Vol. 26, 214. He "appears with the rank of captain on pay roll of 
Capt. Isaac Morten's company, Col. Thomas Poor's regiment, f<>r Septem- 
ber, 1778, dated Fort Clinton, November 14, 1778." Vol. 48, 436. He 
"appears in a copy of a regimental order dated West Point, October 12, 
1778. Said Morton and others reported as having been discharged by 
Colonel Poor from any further service in his regiment, agreeable to Gen- 
eral Washington's orders. Rank, captain." Vol. 174, 541. 

The records of the family state that Captain Morton served throughout 
the war, eight years in all, in the army and navy. In a Letter dated June 
15, 1903, Wm. M. Olin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
writes : 

"I beg to state that an examination of the record index to the revolu- 
tionary rolls collection failed to reveal any reference whatever to an Isaac 
Morton as having served continuously throughout the war. 

"References were found to an Isaac Morton, no place of residence given, 
as having been commissioned captain in July, 1778, of one of the regiments 
raised to serve for 8 months at Peekskill, N. Y. Other references show him 
to have served from July 14, 1778, to October 24, 1778, and that he was 
discharged, presumably on the latter date. (See certified statements given 
previously.) 

"References were also found to an Isaac Morton as having -erved as a 
second lieutenant in Captain Champney's company, Col. Nathaniel Heath's 
detachment of guards, in and about Boston, in 1780. Captain Champney's 
company was made up of men detached from the Boston regimenl of militia, 
but inasmuch as the original pay rolls do not supply any facts concerning 
the individuals borne upon them, it is impossible for us lure to determine 
whether or not the Lieut. Isaac Morton of Captain Champney's company 
is the man who had previously served with the rank of captain." 

Albert Morton of Longwood, Fla., also stated that Capt [saac Morton 
served "when the western Indians were subdued." 

Family records state that he drew a pension of $20 a month. 

At the close of the Revolutionary war Capt. Isaac Morton moved from 
Boston, Mass., to Portsmouth, N. H*., engaging in the bread and sea biscuit 
baking business. In 1798 vellow fever appearing in Portamonth, he re- 
moved to Exeter, N. H., continuing the baking business, his son William, 
then about twelve years old, delivered the bread to his customers. Isaac, 
like his father, died suddenlv at an advanced age. Mrs. Helen Greenwood, 



♦Peekskill was one of the points at which valuable stores of war munitions 
were kept. A _ _ 

LOf C. 



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daughter of Albert Morton, granddaughter of William Morton, great-grand- 
daughter of Capt. Isaac Morton, writes: "My grandfather told me at one 
time that his father (Isaac) was sitting in a chair down by the old Pis- 
Mituqua bridge telling his Revolutionary yarns, and fell backward dead." 
As the graves of Capt. Isaac Morton and his wife are in Portsmouth, it is 
presumed they returned there from Exeter after the yellow fever epidemic 
had passed. He and his wife Anna are buried in the Proprietors' Cemetery 
in the south part of the city of Portsmouth, N. H. The following inscrip- 
tions are upon the gravestone: 

Captain Isaac Morton 

Died Sept. 24, 1824 

Ae. 70 

Anna his wife 

Died Aug. 2, 1817 

Ae. 62. 

Children of Captain Isaac and Anna Barber Morton: 

i. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 9, 1776; m. Sherburne; lived and died in Ports- 
mouth, N. H. Children: (i) William, b. 1798; (ii) John, b. 
1800; (iii) Edward, b. 1802; (iv) Elizabeth, b. 1804; (v) Augus- 
tus, b. 1808; (vi) Benjamin, b. 1812; (vii) Eliza Ann, b. — ; (viii) 
Thomas, b. — ; (ix) Leonard, b. — , died at sea. 

ii. Anna, b. Sept. 17, 1778. 

iii. Isaac, b. July 31, 1781; a joiner; d. unmarried, May 1, 1858. 

ir. Benjamin, b. July 31, 1783. 

71. v. "William, b. Dec. 7, 1785. 

vi. John, b. Jan. 20, 1788; died soon. 

72. vii. John, b. Jan. 31, 1790. 

SEVENTH GENERATION. 

71. William Morton 7 (Isaac , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, Ephraim*, 
Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born December 7, 1785; married at Portsmouth, 
N. H., April, 1813, Sarah Roberts Griffith, born — , 1793; he was a noted 
contractor, builder and millwright and developed the water power and built 
i Ik; first mills at Salmon Falls, N. H. He died suddenly at Salmon Falls, 
N. II., having been found dead in his room at the hotel which he built, 
December 12, 1865, aged 80, and his wife died there February 8, 1849, aged 
56. They are both buried in Portsmouth, N. H. 

Their children: 

73. i. William Henry, b. Feb. 9, 1814. 
71. ii. Albert, b. Jan. 8, 1816. 

iii. Charles, b. March 31, 1819; died at Portsmouth, N. H., March 27, 
1820; scalded. 

iv. Eliza Ann, b. xMarch 3, 1821; m. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Sept. 27, 
1843, Thomas, s. of John and Margaret (Armstrong) Dermott, b. in 
Ireland, Jan. 8, 1842; d. Maiden, Mass., Jan. 23, 1888. Address: 
Maiden, Mass. Children all but the last born in Blackstone, Mass.: 
Louisa Adelaide, b. Aug. 24, 1844; (ii) Mary Eliza, b. Jan. 8, 
1847; in. (1) at Salmon Falls, N. H., Sept. 13, 1871, Austin Her- 
bert, son of Cordle and Emily (Phelps) Crane, b. Schenectady, 
N. V.. Sept. 23, 1845, d. Hannibal, Mo., May 8, 1873; m. (2) at 
Melrose, Mass., May 21, L878, Kmory Botsford, s. of Peter Hub- 
1.11 an. I Emily (Leland) Smith, b. Plattsburg, N. Y., Sept. 21, 
1888, <I. Orford, N. H., July 20, 1881; child: Kalph Emory Bots- 



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ford, b. Melrose, Apr. 30, 187'.»; resides the Victoria, MaUin, 
Mass.; (iii) Thomas Edmund, b. May 5, 1849 J d. Mar. s, [(H)5j (i v ) 
Arebella Lucrotia, b. — , 1851, d. at :; months of age; (v) Annie 
Morton, b. June 20, 1853; in. at Melrose, Mai . I tiarles Krastus, 
son of Thomas Winship and Mary Jam- (lvusscll) I'.rown, l>. Head- 
ing, Mass., Oct. 9, 1859. Address: Maiden, Mass.: (1) Arline Mor- 
ton, b. Melrose, Mass., Mar. 7, 1S81 ; m., Sept. 4, 1907, Warren 
Goddard Bartlett; (vi) William Morton, b. July 23, 1857; (vii) 
Sarah Ottilie, b. Salmon Falls, N. H., Nov. 15, 1859. 

75. v. Edmund Griffith, b. July 24, 1823. 

76. vi. John Barton, b. Feb. 8, 1826. 

vii. James Anderson, b. Apr. 6, 1828; d. Salsbury, Cal, — , 1865. 

viii. Mary Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 1832; d. Salmon Falls, N. H., Oct. 12, 1839. 

77. ix. Charles Augustus, b. Mar. 25, 1834. 

78. x. Isaac Newton, b. April 27, 1837. 

72. John Morton 7 (Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , 
George 1 ). Born January 31, 1790, at Portsmouth, N. H. ; d. January 1, 
1858; m. Elizabeth Stimson, b. April 25, 1792; d. January 20, 1868; of 
Irish descent. He was school trustee for many years, also justice of the 
peace; was educated in Portsmouth, X. H., and was a man of superior 
intelligence; when young learned the trade of a cabinet maker in Boston, 
and upon removing to Batavia, N. Y., and later to Kochester, N. Y., car- 
ried on the business extensively. Upon removing to Ohio he settled in 
Akron, where he owned sufficient property for his wants. He was a demo- 
crat until the republican party was organized, when he entered that party, 
in which he remained until his death. Both he and his wife are buried in 
the Akron cemetery. Their children: 

79. i. Augustine G., b. Batavia, N. Y., Apr. 4, 1813. 

ii. Eliza, b. Batavia, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1815; m. — , 1834, at Mendon, 
N. Y., Lewis Hanscom, b. Feb. 8, 1813; d. Feb. 25, 1894; living 
children: (i) Celia, b. — , m. — , Stevenson; resides Newark, Cal. 
(ii) Mattie E., b. Sept. 20, 1843; d. Jan. 9, 1902; m. Nicholas J. 
Burke, a well-known captain on the great lakes; he died Jan. 5, 
1872; their child, Ada Mattie, b. Kirkland, O.; m. Apr. 12, 1855, 
at Danville, Cal., Benjamin Wilcox; they have these children: (1) 
Boy Hanscom, b. May 16, 1888; (2) Laura Flournoy, b. Dec. 1, 
1892; (3) Alton Burke, b. Dec. 21, 1897. 

80. iii. Nathaniel, b. Mendon, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1816. 

iv. Dorliski, b. Mendon, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1818; m. in Mendon, N. Y., in 
1835 to George Hanscom. (i) May Sophia, b. — , m. (1) — Gray, 
(2) — Venier; 3 children: Charles, Duane, Deforest; (ii) Adelia 
Francis, b. — , m. Asher D. Ensign: (1) Bertha Frances; (2) Harry 
Asher; (3) Elizabeth; (iii) Edgar King; 63 Commercial St., 
Boston. 

William, b. Mendon, N. Y., May 30, 1820. 

Russell Isaac, b. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1825. 

Lovett Stimson, b. Mendon, N. Y., Mar. 10, 1827. 

EIGHTH GENERATION. 

73. Hon. William Henry Morton 8 (William', Isaac 9 , Edmund*, 
Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Portsmouth, X. H., 
Feb. 9, 1814; d. at Salmon Falls, X. H., June 4, 1904; removed with his 
parents in 1823 to Salmon Falls, N. H., then a part of Somersworth ; educa- 
tion, begun in Portsmouth, was continued at the Berwick Academy, South 
Berwick; in 1834 removed to Grafton, Mass.; in 1842 removed to Black- 



81. 


v. 


82. 


vi. 


83. 


vii 



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ntone, Mass.; in 1845 returned to Salmon Falls and conducted a general 
store until 1851, when he sold his business and became cashier of the Salmon 
Falls bank, then just established, in which position he served forty-three 
yean, until 1894 ; was one of the incorporators of the Eollinsford Savings 
Bank and its secretary and treasurer thirty-seven years, from 1855 to 1892; 
town irvasurer of Eollinsford from its establishment in 1849 to 1901; town 
clerk from 1853 to 1897; justice of the peace from 1857; selectman of 
town of Somersworth two years; selectman of town of Eollinsford from 
establishment; state senator, 1884-1886; m. (1) at Grafton, Mass., 
Sept. 5, 1841, Sarah Putnam, dau. of Tarrant and Anna (Kimball) Mer- 
riain. b. — , 1817; she d. Aug. 22, 1849, at Salmon Falls, N. H., and is 
buried at Eollinsford, N. H. ; he m. (2) in Boston, Mar. 12, 1851, 
Armine, dau. of Alpheus and — (Preble) Leavitt, b. in York, Me. — , 
1829; she d. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Feb. 12, 1866, and is buried at Eol- 
linsford, X. H.; he m. (3) at Berwick, Me., Oct. 29, 1867, Mary J., dau. 
of Samuel and Sarah (Cottle) Shackford, b. at Portsmouth, N. H., April 
25, 1829. 

His children: 
By wife Sarah: 

i. Josephine Maria, b. June 26, 1842, at Blackstone, Mass.; d. Dec. 17, 

1844 ; buried at Rollinsford. 
ii. Georgiana, b. at Blackstone, Mass., Sept. 17, 1843; d. Dec. 23, 1844; 

buried at Rollinsford. 
iii. Georgietta, b. at Blackstone, Mass., Sept. 17, 1843; m. at Salmon 
Falls, N. H., Mar. 31, 1868, John Lynn, son of Asaph and Nancy 
(Collins) Merriam, b. May 15, 1842, at Meriden, Conn., d. June 
24, 1878; she resides at Meriden, Conn.; their child Louise, b. at 
Brooklyn, June 16, 1870; m. at Meriden, Conn., May 25, 1892, Her- 
man Theodore, son of Charles August and Elizabeth (Stoeppler) 
Graeber; resides 30 Hobart St., Meriden, Conn.; their child: (1) 
William Morton, b. at Meriden, Conn., Oct. 17, 1896. 
By wife Armine: 

iv. Frederick Henry, b. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Sept. 23, 1854; d. Juno 
2, 1867. 
84. t. William Alpheus, b. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Aug. 23, 1857. 
vi. Sara Josephine, b. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Oct. 21, 1862. 

74. ALBERT Morton 8 (William 1 , Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim\ Ephraim-, George 1 ). Born at Portsmouth, N". H., Jan. 8, 1816; 
d. at Longwood, Fla., April 22, 1904; m. at Great Falls, N. H., May 5, 

'. Cynthia Kimball, dau. of Eichard and Elizabeth (Kimball) Waldron, 
b. at Dover, N. II.. May 10, 1815; she d. Nov. 8, 1889, at Longwood, Fla. 

Their children: 

i. Mary Hannah, b. at Great Falls, N. H., May 1, 1840; d. at Glouces- 
ter, N. J., Nov. 27, 1845. 

ii. HELEN .Fane, b. at Great Falls, N. H., Sept. 27, 1842; m. (1) at 
Exeter, N. II., James William, son of William and Margaret 
(Sj.ced) Tetherly; he d. at So. Newmarket, N. H. (now Newfields), 
Oet Hi, 1864; their child, Alice Morton Tetherly, b. at So. New- 
mark, -t (now Newfields), N. H, Mar. 13, 1862; she m. (2) Charles, 
■OH of John and Phoebe (Keniston) French, at So. Newmarket, 
N - "■• Oct 13, L865; he d. at Stratham, N. H.; was a member of 
Battery A, l-'irst Mass. Light Artillery; at the breaking out of the 
Cm] War immediately went to the front, serving out short 
enlistment; n-enlisted for three years; promoted to be second lieu- 



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tenant; their child: (1) Charles Albert French, b. Dec. 1",, L866, 
at Boston, Mass.; d. at St ratliam, \. 11., July 14, L879; she m 
(3) at Boston, Apr. 2, 1872, Georgo Simeon, son of William Allen 
and Letitia (Groome) Groenwood, b. Troy, N. V., Aug. 15, 1840; 
enlisted in the first company raised in Troy at the beginning of the 
civil War, the company became a part of the Second \. V. regi- 
ment; re-enlisted in the Seventh N. Y. Heavy Artillery; discharged 
in August, 1865. Resides Longwood, Fla. 

iii. George William, b. Nov. 8, 1847, at Gloucester, N. J.j enlisted for 
the Civil War June 23, 1862, as drummer in Co. P, Ninth N. II. 
Infantry; discharged for disability Feb. 23, 1863; unmarried. Ad- 
dress, Berlin, Wis. 

iv. Abbie Frances, b. at So. Newmarket, N. H., Feb. 12, l.sr>2; in. at Sal- 
mon Falls, N. H., Francis Wayland, s. of Hiram Rollins and Ruth 
(Ham) Roberts, b. at Rollinsford, N. H., Dec. 16, 1851; address, 
Postville, la. Children: (i) Lilian Estelle, b. Dover, N. EL, Dec. 
2, 1873; (ii) Fred Morton, b. Postville, la., Mar. 16, 1880; (iii) 
Helen Waldron, b. Postville, la., Feb. 23, 1890. 

v. Lizzie Adelaide, b. So. Newmarket, N. H., Jan. 19, 1854; m. Salmon 
Falls, N. H., Oct. 8, 1873, Dr. Charles Emmet, son of Nathan and 
Emeline Amanda (Mills) Walker, b. at Woodburn, Macoupin Co., 111., 
Dec. 22, 1847. Address, Sanford, Fla. Children: (i) Flora Alice, 
b. Natick, Mass., Oct. 15, 1874; (ii) Laura May, b. Natick, Mass., 
Oct. 10, 1876; m. Sept. 7, 1904, at Oberlin, O., James Edward, son 
of Thomas Sanborn and Emily FTancis (Anthony) Dexter, b. Prov- 
idence, 111., Feb. 12, 1873; a dentist; they have one child, James 
Alfred, b. at Oberlin, O., Sept. 21, 1905; reside at Oberlin, O.; (iii) 
Nina Morse, b. Natick, Mass., Nov. 4, 1879; m. Sept. 16, 1902, 
Charles Allen, son of Allen and Ruth Emma (Ferris) De Voe, b. 
at Lamartine, Wis., Oct. 28, 1872; they have one child, Dorothy 
Morton, b. Rosendale, Wis., Dec. 19, 1904; reside at Rosendale, 
Wis. 

vi. Annie Waldron, b. So. Newmarket, N. H., Dec. 24, 1856; d. London, 
Eng., Aug. 29, 1891. 
85. vii. Albert Hayes, b. So. Newmarket, N. H., Dec. 24, 1856. 

75. Edmund Griffith Morton 8 (William'', Isaac , Edmund 5 , Ebe- 
nezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Portsmouth, X. H., July 
24, 1824; m., North Yarmouth, Me., Nov. 14, 1849, Adeline Drinkwater, 
dau. of William and Adeline (Drinkwater) Hicks, b. North Yarmouth, Me., 
Aug. 29, 1827 ; he was educated at the public schools and at the academy 
at South Berwick. Me. ; when about 18 went to Boston and lived with his 
uncle, Edmund R. Griffith, from whom he learned the oil, paint and glass 
business; at 24 entered business on his own account and continued it suc- 
cessfully until in May, 1852, when, influenced by the discovery of gold in 
California, and prompted by a love of adventure, he sailed with his family 
from Boston in the clipper ship "Staffordshire" for San Francisco, the voy- 
age taking 101 days; he mined for 10 years in Mariposa county, since which 
time he has been engaged in ranching. Address : Colusa, Cal. : 

i. Edmund Griffith, b. North Yarmouth, Me., Aug. 25, 1850; d. Colusa, 

Cal., May. 2, 1889. 
ii. Adelaide, b. Indian Gulch, Cal., Juno 21, 1854; m. Dor. 25. 1905, 

George Reed, s. of Henry Blakeslee and Emeline (Reed) Tattle, 

b. Lansingburg, N. Y., Jan. 24, 1839. Address Ochsncr Building, 

Sacramento, Cal. 



See pp. 19-20 of "Genealogy of the Tuttlo Family." 



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iii. Sarah, b. Indian Gulch, Cal., Aug. 6, 1856; m. Eoutiers, Cal., Dec. 
28, 1881, to Benjamin F., son of Marcus Jay and Jane (Kelso) 
II. > ward, b. Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 11, 1851; resides at Sacramento, 
where he was county superintendent of schools for many years. 

iv. Jennie Buxton, b. Stockton, Cal., June 30, 1859; d. Sacramento, Apr. 

L\ 1NSS. 

v. James Anderson, b. Eoutiers, Cal., Dec. 14, 1861. 

vL Georgietta, b. Eoutiers, Cal., Mar. 27, 1865. 

vii. Frank, b. Aug. 13, 1866; d. Aug. 17, 1866. 

viii. Belle, b. Eoutiers, Cal., July 11, 1867; m. at Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 
1, 1897, Alfred Haveloek, son of George Skinner and Hannah Louisa 
(Bettam) Tickell, b. Belleville, Ont., Oct. 5, 1864. He is a med- 
ical practitioner and resides at Nevada City, Cal. 

ix. Mary Elizabeth Griffith, b. Eoutiers, Cal., Sept. 23, 1869. 

76. John Barber Morton 8 (William 7 , Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebe- 
nezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Eollinsford, N". H., Feb. 
M, 1826; m. Sept. 8, 1852, at Kennebunk, Me., Mary Josephine Kimball. 
He was educated at the public schools in Rollinsford and at the South Ber- 
wick academy; from 1848 to 1873 he was engaged in the merchant tailoring 
business; a republican in politics, he served the town of Eollinsford as tax 
collector and selectman. He is now retired from business and resides at 
Iowa City, la. Children all born in Salmon Falls, N. H. : 

i. Sarah Eosa, b. Oct. 4, 1853; m. there, Dec. 31, 1877, Charles, son 
of Samuel Laubham, b. in Haverhill, Mass., Mar. 22, 1852; d. 
there May 4, 1904. For many years he was prominently identified 
with the leather and shoe business and later his interest was given 
to transactions in real estate. He served in the common council in 
1891, and he was a member of the Middlesex, Essex, Pentucket and 
Wachusett clubs. He was a Knight Templar and a member of 
Sagahew lodge of Masons and Haverhill lodge of Elks, and was 
affiliated with the congregation of the North Congregational church 
and interested in all the work of that society; children: (i) Flor- 
ence Esther, b. Haverhill, Nov. 30, 1878; (ii) Samuel Morton, b. 
Haverhill, June 8, 1884. 

ii. John Edward, b. May 26, 1855; d. Oct. 2, 1874. 
06. iii. Henry Kimball, b. Mar. 18, 1858. 

iv. Arthur Griffith, b. Jan. 1, 1860; d. June 28, 1884. 

r. Maky Jewett, b. Oct. 21, 1867; d. Mar. 2, 1886. 

vi. Martha Caroline, b. Nov. 6, 1869; m. Nov. 22, 1892, at Haverhill, 
.Mass., Howard Latham Clark, son of Dr. Clark of Derry, N. H. ; 
d. Sept. 9, 1903, at Boston, aged 37; was junior member of the firm 
of J. H. Winchell & Co. His widow resides at 195 Mill street, 
1 lav. Thill ; child: (i) Margaret Morton, b. Nov. 12, 1893. 

77. Charles Augustus Morton 8 (William 7 , Isaac , Edmund 5 , Ebe- 
nczcr\ Ephraim*, Ephraim*, George 1 ). Born at Portsmouth, N. H., Mar. 
25, 1834 ; educated at the public schools and at the academy at South Ber- 
wick. M..; was an expert machinist; m. at Standish, Me., Oct. 15, 1856, 
Susan Nason, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Meservey*) York, b. Oct. 15, 

• Descended from (1) Qrepoire and Jeanette Messervy, d'Anneville, St. Martin, 
Idle of Jersey, L496-1586, the line being as follows: 
Li. BXCHABD Mkssekvy. 

.t. Thomas Mksskrvy. 
4. Thomas mf.sskkvy. 

Ti. CLHMXNT Mfnskkvy. 

«. J KAN MKKNKRVY. 

7. CU 10 r Mksshkvy, who migrated from the Isle of Jersey to Portsmouth. 
n. h., before u\:::. 






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1834; he d. at Biddeford, Me., April 28, 1879; she d. at Biddeford, Me., 
Jan. 30, 1892; she was a member of the Second Congregational Church 
of Biddeford. Children all born at Biddeford: 

i. Lillie Sarah Eliza, b. Apr. 1, 1858; m. July 31, 1882, John Kermott, 
s. of John M. and Nancy (Bancroft) Allen, b. Chelsea, Mi. h., May 

9, 1858; he is a journalist and author; resides at I'.his. Washington 
Ave., Chicago, 111.; he is a descendant of I.'al|.h Alien, of Sand- 
wich, Mass., 1637, and of Thomas Bancroft, of D»dham, Mass., 
1637. 

ii. Cora Estelle, b. Aug. 8, 1860; m. at Biddeford, Me., Nov. 29, 1904. 
Levi Woodbury Stone, s. of Phineas and Eliza (Estes) Stone, b. 
Mar. 28, 1836, at Cornish, Me.; resides at Biddeford, Me. 

87. iii. Charles James, b. Jan. 23, 1863. 

88. iv. William, b. Oct. 24, 1865. 

v. Angie Fidella, b. Aug. 29, 1867; in. Biddeford, Me., Sept. 3, 1889, 
Abraham Lincoln Tasker, s. of John Gilman and Theodate (Tasker) 
Cummings, b. Saco, Me., Feb. 13, 1865; Mr. Cummings was edu- 
cated in the common and high schools of Saco, Me. ; reporter, city 
editor and editor of the Biddeford Daily "Times"; western Maine 
correspondent of the Boston "Herald" (headquarters at Portland, 
Me.) from 1894; alderman of Biddeford, 1893; chief special clerk 
(manufactures) U. S. census of 1900; clerk of the Portland com- 
mon council, 1902-3; deputy collector of internal revenue for Maine, 
1903; city clerk, 1908. Residence, Portland, Me. 

vi. Charlotte May, b. Sept. 19, 1872 ; m. Biddeford, Me., June 27, 1900, 
Henry Hutchinson, s. of Edward Hooper and Elizabeth Nason (Jor- 
dan) Gove, b. Dec. 23, 1875; manufacturer; resides at Bidde- 
ford, Me. 

78. Isaac Newton Morton 8 (William 7 , Isaac 9 , Edmund*, Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Somersworth, NT. H., April 27, 
1837; m. at Wauwautosa, Wis., April 12, 1859, Julia Eunice, dau. of 
Jonathan Merriam and Lavinia (Damon) Warren; she was b. at Grafton, 
Mass., Jan. 12, 1837, and d. at Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 1, 1875. Children: 

i. Minnie, b. at Milwaukee, Apr. 24, 1861; d. there Dec. 5, 1866. 
ii. Frank Warren, b. at Milwaukee, Aug. 13, 1864; d. at Chicago, July 
20, 1888. 

89. iii. William Bliss, b. at Milwaukee, May 9, 1866. 
iv. Florence Stone, b. at Milwaukee, June 10, 1868. 

v. Cora Fowler, b. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 31, 1869; m. at Wauwautosa, 
Wis., Nov. 26, 1902, Eudolph, s. of Rudolph and Emma Caroline 
(Brandt) Tragard, b. Chicago, 111., June 17, 1865; reside at Wau- 
wautosa, Wis. 

vi. George Henshall, b. at Oconomowoc, Wis., July 1. 1*72. 

vii. Susan Clarke, b. at Milwaukee, Nov. 27, 1875; d. July 15, 1876. 

He m. (2), Jan. 19, 1878, Harriet Douglas., dau. of Spencer Chapin 
and Sarah Elizabeth (White) Benham, b. Washington, D. C, Nov. 30. 1855. 

8. Clement Messervy. 

9. Clement Meservey. 

10. John Meservey. 

11. Betsey Meservey, b. Apr. 14, 1760; m. Isaac York. 

12. Sarah York, b. Jan. 2, 1800; m. Samuel York. 

13. Susan Nason York, b. Oct. 15, 1834. 

See "Genealogie de la Famille Messervy, " by J. A. Messervy, Jersey. 1399. 



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Their children: 

vii. LiOUISI Granger, b. Chicago, Oct. 10, 1878. 

viii. Ki.izabf.th White, b. Evanston, 111., Feb. 1, 1882; m. Apr. 20, 1903, 

:it Clearwater, Fla., W. E. Hensley; child: (i) Louise Granger, b. 

Feb. 14, 1904; reside at 458 Fargo Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

II-' m. (3), Jan. 17, 1894, at Peru, Fla., Minnie Bridges, dau. of George 
Pendleton and Amanda (Currie) Bridges, b. Lima Center, Wis., Aug. 27, 
1867 ; resides at Tampa, Fla. For many years he was prominently engaged 
in the wholesale and retail drug business in Milwaukee; later he operated 
on the Chicago Board of Trade ; still later for twenty years he was a promi- 
nent druggist at Tampa, retiring from active business in 1905. 

79. Augustine G. Morton 8 (John 7 , Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Batavia, N". Y., April 4, 1813; 
m. in Boston, Mass., in 1842, Olive Bryant; removed to Ohio; no descend- 
ants living; he d. Jan. 25, 1888. 

Children : 

i. Frank, b. — ; d. — . 
ii. Fred, b. — ; d. — . 

80. Nathaniel S. Morton 8 (John 7 , Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Mendon, N. Y., Oct, 4, 1816; d. 
May 12, 1895; m. in 1841 Adelaide Curson, b. May 13, 1823. 

( hildren: 

i. Helen Frances, b. at Clyde, O. ; m. Oct. 25, 1865, at Akron, O., 
William H. Eeider, who died leaving these children: (i) Mattie, 
deceased; (ii) Grace, deceased; (iii) Ada; (iv) Fred M. ; (v) 
Bertie. Mrs. Eeider resides at 2026 Lawrence Ave., Toledo, O. 
ii. Ophelia, now Mrs. Charles Starr, 290 Main St., Owego, N. Y. ; two 
children: Lorana, Charles. 
90. iii. Wallace Augustine, b. at Cuyahoga Falls, O., Mar. 4, 1849. 
'.•I. iv. Frederick Stimson, b. 

81. William Morton 8 (John 7 , Isaac , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, Ephraim 9 , 
Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Mendon, N. Y., May 30, 1820; m. in Akron, 
O., — , 1851, Mary C. Gilbert. 

Children: 

i. William Eugene. 

ii. I.IKLLA. 

82. &U8SELL Isaac Morton 8 (John 7 , Isaac 9 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim*, Ephraim*, George 1 ). Born in Bochester, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1823; 
(1. I tec. 88, 1N96 ; m. Mar. 16, 1851, at Akron, O., Nancy Agnes Latimer, b. 
Pittsburg, Pa., July 11, 1830; d. Apr. 4, 1897. 

Children : 

i. Mary, b. Dec 10, 1851 ; d. Aug. 12, 1852. 

ii. Etiiki. ELIZABETH, b. Akron, O., May 4, 1854; m. at Goshen, Ind., 
Apr. 15, 1874, Dr. Curtis Allen Lambert, s. of John and Nancy 
(Newcomer) Lambert, b. May 11, 1846; resides 6446 Harvard 
A\«-.. ESnglewood, Chicago, 111.; children: (i) Charles Morton, b. 
Mar. 81, 1876, m. Oct. 9, 1896, Etta Peterson; artist; resides 6551 
Emerald Ave., Chicago; children (1) Ralph Morton, b. Dec. 30, 
1MI7; (2) Roy, b. April 14, 1899; (ii) Curtis Arthur, b. July 10, 
1SX1; (iii) Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1877; d. Dec. 23, 1877. 

in. Maky Louise, b. Sept. 16, 1859, at Cleveland, O.; m. Sept. 16, 1879, 
:it Qoaben, End., to Woodson V. E., eon of Peachy Carson and Jane 
MetiSM (Cowan) Mcssick, b. Goshen, Ind., Aug. 29, 1855; reside* 



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in Goshen; children: (i) Morton Woodson, b. Julv 20, 1 sh3 ; (ii) 

Albert Roy, b. June 4, 1888. 
iv. John, b. Nov. 8, 1855; d. May 22, 1886. 
v. CHAELBS, b. Apr. 16, 1862; d.'Sopt. 18, 1862. 

83. Lovett Stimson Morton -8 {John 1 , Isaac 6 , Edmund?, Ebenezer*, 
Ephraim 3 , Ephraim*, George 1 ). Born in Mendon, N. Y., Mar. 10, 1827; 
in. at Ashtabula, 0., Sept. 25, 1850, Emma Ann, dau. of Alanson and 
Louise (Abernathy) Ford, b. Williamsfield, 0., July 8, 1832. Lovett Stim- 
son Morton was educated in common schools and in the Western Reserve 
Academy in Lake county, Ohio. When nineteen years old, with his brothers 
Nathaniel and William, he rented a 600 acre farm near Akron, O., on which 
they raised grain and stock for several years; he then entered the grocery 
business in Akron, 0., and was burned out in 1855 ; removed to Cleveland 
and was employed by the Cleveland and Toledo railroad; in 1858 went to 
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as assistant superintendent of the new railroad 
that was being built there; in 1861 went to Washington, D. C, and was 
deputy and acting postmaster of the House of Representatives until 1867 ; 
was then appointed U. S. internal revenue assessor for the Cleveland dis- 
trict (18th Ohio) for the term of four years; removed to California in 
1875; lived in Santa Barbara county several years; removed in 1899 to 
Alameda, Cal., where he now resides.* 

Children : 

i. Alice Jane, b. Akron, O., Apr. 26, 1852; m. Cleveland, O., Oct. 7, 
1874, Andrew Jackson Nichols, b. Spencer, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1849; 
d. May 5, 1895; their children: (i) Lovett Morton, b. Santa Bar- 
bara, Cal., Oct. 19, 1875 (ii) Emma Louise, b. Jacksonville, 111., 
Apr. 5, 1880; she m. (2) June 22, 1902, Eugene M. Barton; they 
reside in Manila, P. I. 

ii. Carrie Louise, b. Cleveland, O., Jan. 12, 1859; m. Nov. 19, 1879, 
James Dalton, son of Dr. Francis Clark and Lavilla (Bentley) 
Bacon, b. Huntertown, Ind., Jan. 31, 1855; resides 1535 Benton St., 
Alameda, Cal.; their children: (i) Morton Furth, b. Maxwell, 
Cal., Oct. 16, 1882; (ii) Francis Dalton, b. Maxwell, Cal., Aug. 15, 
1885. 



NINTH GENERATION. 

84. William Alpheus Morton 9 (William Henry*, William", Isaac", 
Edmund 6 , Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Salmon 
Falls, N. H., Aug. 23, 1857 ; m. at Haverhill, June 25, 1889, Mrs. Mary A. 
Chase Flanders. He is an interior decorator of great reputation, and has 
carried out some very large contracts in New England. Resides at 10 
Columbia Park, Haverhill, Mass. 

i. Mary Armine, b. Haverhill, Mass., Nov. 13, 1891. 

85. Albert Hayes Morton 9 (Albert*, William' 1 , Isaac 9 , Edmund 6 , 
Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at South Newmarket, 
N. H. (now Newfields), Dec. 24, 1856; in. at Salmon Falls, N. H., Feb. 14, 



* It is fitting to state here that Mr. Morton has rendered the compiler of this 
record great assistance, having, indeed, furnished the clue without which the line 
of ascent of several families of Mortons might not have been traced to George 
Morton. It is a pleasure to express my grateful thanks in this manner. 



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L881, -Jessie Fremont, dau. of Eben S. and Abra D. (Wentworth) Nowell; 
. .1 in South New-market until 1866 ; thence to Salmon Falls, N. H., where 
attended high school; attended the academy at South Berwick, Me.; 
entered Dartmouth College in September, 1873, class of 1877; since that 
time he has been engaged in the mechanical line of business at Salmon 
Kails. N. EL, Harrisburg, Texas, Providence, E. I., and since 1891 as super- 
intendent of the Kitson Machine Co. at Lowell, Mass. 

Children : 

i. ALBERT Nowell, b. Salmon Falls, N. H., Mar. 9, 1882. 
ii. EOWAED, b. Providence, K. I., Dec. 20, 1888. 

86. Henry Kimball Morton 9 (John Barber 8 , William 7 , Isaac 9 , 
Edmund?, Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Salmon 
Falls, N. 11., Mar. 18, 1858; m. at Solon, la., Jan. 1, 1886, Mary E. 
M ulock ; is a merchant at Iowa City, la. Children all born there : 

i. John Mulock, b. Feb. 28, 1890. 

ii. VANCE, b. Mar. 19, 1892. 

iii. Eose Laubham, b. May 8, 1893; d. Oct. 6, 1893. 

87. Charles James Morton 9 (Charles Augustus 8 , William 7 , Isaac 6 , 
Edmund?, Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Biddeford, 
Me., Jan. 23, 1863; m. Sept. 5, 1893, Adelle L., dau. of Adelbert P. and 

■ ■ta E. (Batchelder) Eobbins, b. Sept. 18, 1872, at Union, Me.; he was 
educated in the public schools at Biddeford, where he also learned the trade 
of a machinist and worked there four years; worked at die sinking five years 
at Worcester, Mass., and since 1891 foreman of die sinking department of 
the Walworth Mfg. Co., Boston ; address, 79 Lonsdale St., Dorchester, Mass. 
i. Adelbert Robbins, b. South Boston, Feb. 22, 1895. 

88. William Franklin Morton 9 (Charles Augustus 8 , William 7 , 
l.«me n , Edmund*, Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at 
Biddeford, Me., Oct, 24, 1865; m. June — , 1891, at New York city, Mar- 
garet, dau. of Porter and — (Ewing) Divver, b. Dobbs Ferry, N". Y., Sept. 

— , 1866; he was educated in the public schools at Biddeford and learned 
the trade of a molder; resides Quincy, Mass. 

i. < 'iiarles Allen, b. New York City, Oct. 6, 1892. 

89. William Bliss Morton 9 (Isaac Newton 8 , William 7 , Isaac 9 , 
EdinumV', Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at Milwaukee, 
Wis., May, 9, 1866; m. Milwaukee, Sept. 17, 1892, Sarah Harriet, dau. of 
John ami Nancy Jane (Mulligan) Farley, b. at Marion, 111., Mar. 14, 1862. 
No children. Resides Maywood, 111. 

90. Wallace Augustine Morton 9 (Nathaniel 8 , John 7 , Isaac 9 , Ed- 
mund', Ebn /', Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Cuyahoga 
Palls, ().. Mar. 4, 1849; m. Nov. 4, 1868, Ida E. Hill; jeweler; resided at 
Owego, N. Y.; d. Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1904. 

Children: 

i. Crv Wallace, b. Mar. 16, 1872. 
ii. I' i:<y Douclass, b. Aug. 13, 1892. 

91. FREDERICK Stimson Morton 9 (Nathaniel 8 , John 7 , Isaac 9 , Ed- 
mund! 1 , Eberu wr 4 , Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born in Akron, 0., 



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— ; m. in 1882 at San Francisco, Cal., to Margaret Emma Higgins; is a 
miller; resides at 2256 Buena Vista avenue, Alameda, Cal. 

Children : 

i. Stella Loretta, b. — . 
ii. Mary Adelaide, b. — . 

TENTH GENERATION. 

92. Gut Wallace Morton 10 (Wallace Augustine 9 , Nathaniel 9 , John 7 , 
Isaac 6 , Edmund 5 , Ebenezer*, Ephraim 3 , Ephraim 2 , George 1 ). Born at 
Owego, N. Y., Mar. 16, 1872; m. Dec. 29, 1898, Margaret Duer; resides at 
Scranton, Pa. 

Children : 

i. Emily Hill, b. Owego, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1899. 

ii. Dorothy, b. Scranton, Pa., April 10, 1901. 

iii. James Edward, b. Eocheeter, N. Y., May 18, 1904. 



Index to First Names of Persons Bearing the 

Surname of Morton 



Abbie Frances, 37. 
AhU-1, 20. 

Abigail. 20. 21. 22, 24. 
Abby H., 28. 
Adelaide, 37, 40. 
Adelbert Robbing, 42. 
Adeline Drinkwater, 37. 
AdeUe L., 42. 
Albert, 33, 34, 36. 
Albert Gallatin, 29. 
Albert Hayes, 37, 41. 
Albert Nowell. 42. 
Alfred Bennett, 30. 
Alice, 4, 19. 
Alice Jane, 41. 
Ambrose. 24, 25. 
Amy Morton, 28. 
Andrew Jackson, 29. 
Angeline, 30. 
Angle Fidelia. 39. 
Ann, 4. 10, 13, 15. 
Anna, 21, 32, 34. 
Anna Livingston, 18. 
Anne. 4. 5, 29. 
Annie Wuldron, 37. 
Anthony, 4, 5. 
Armlne, 36. 

Arthur Austerfleld. 22. 
Arthur Griffith, 38. 
Augustine G., 35, 40. 
Bathsheba, 29. 
Belle, 38. 
Benjamin, 19, 34. 
Betty, 24. 
Caroline Diana, 25. 
Catherine Richmond. 17. 
Caroline Stlnison, 22. 
Catherine. 5, 16, 17. 
Cephas, 30. 

Charles. 4, 20, 25, 34, 41. 
Charles Allen, 42. 
Charles Ambrose, 25. 
Charles Augustus, 35, 38. 
Charles Austin, 29. 
Charles James, 39, 42. 
Charles Ward Anthorn, 23. 
Charlotte, 27, 28. 
Charlotte May, :;'.». 
iljrlstlan, 4. 
Clarke, BO, 
torn Kstelle, 39. 
C.irn Fowler, 88, 

OorneUaa, 19. 

CorneUtu Bennett, 30. 

Onthla Kimball, 88. 

Daniel. :,. 

Daniel Oliver. 17, 18. 

David, 11. 

Dlmond, 81, 

Deborah, 12. 14, i<;, 19. 24 

80, SO. 
Da Leoe Lucy, is. 

l»orllBkl. 80. 
Dototlqr, 4, 43. 
Ebeneaer, 14, 15, 10, 19 22 
89. SI. . . . 

Edith Livingston. 18. 
Edmund, 23, 80, 81, 83. 
Bdmond Oriffltbl 88 37 
Edwin, 80. 
Elbtidge Gerry, 29. 
Kliazr-r. 11, 13, h, ij_ 24, 

Electa frary, 17. 
F.llaha. 19, 20. 



Eliza, 35. 

Eliza Ann, 34. 

Elizabeth, 4, 5, 11, 14, 18, 

19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 

31, 34, 35. 
Elizabeth Tyler, 18. 
Elizabeth White, 40. 
Elkanah, 19. 
Emma Ann, 41. 
Emily Frances, 29. 
Emily Hill, 43. 
Emily MatUda, 28. 
Ephraim, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 

19, 20, 21, 22. 
Esther, 12. 
Ethel Elizabeth, 40. 
Ezekiel, 20, 21. 
Florence Stone, 39. 
Frances, 4. 
Frances Wood, 27. 
Francis, 4. 
Frank, 38, 40. 
Frank Catton, 25. 
Frank Warren, 39. 
Fred, 40. 

Frederic Henry, 36. 
Frederic Stimson, 40, 42. 
George, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

10, 13, 14, 19, 20. 
George Clinton, 25. 
George Deloss, 18. 
George Henshall, 39. 
George William, 37. 
George Woodbury, 22. 
G'eorgianna, 36. 
Georgietta, 36, 38. 
Hervase, 4. 

Guy Wallace, 42, 43. 
Hannah, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 

31. 
Hannah Dailey, 17. 
Hannah Purrington, 29. 
Harriet, 27, 30. 
Harriet Douglas, 39. 
Harrison Gray Otis, 30. 
Helen, 33. 
Helen Francis, 40. 
Helen Jane, 36. 
Helen Stuyvesant, 19. 
Henry, 15, 23, 24. 
Henry Cotton, 25. 
Henry Kimball, 38, 42. 
Henry Martin, 29. 
Howard, 42. 

Ichabod, 15, 16, 20, 26, 29, 

30. 
Ida !■:.. 42. 

Isaac, 20, 24, 31, 32, 33, 34. 
Isaac Newton, 35, 39. 
Isabel, 4. 
Jabez, 26. 
James, 21. 

JameB Alexander, 35. 
James Anderson, 38. 
James Edward, 43. 
James Hodges, 27. 
James Madison, 29. 
James Melvln, 25. 
Cuius Stanley, 25. 
Jane, 4, 19. 
Jane Elizabeth, 25. 
Jemima, 26. 
Jennie Buxton, 38. 
Jessie Fremont, 42. 



Joan, 4. 

Joanna, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 

24, 25. 
Joanna Dennis, 25. 
Joanna Maria, 27. 
Job, 20, 26, 28. 
Joel, 25. 
John, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 

15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 30, 34, 

35, 41. 
John Barber, 38. 
John Barton, 35. 
John Edward, 38. 
John Hancock, 24. 
John Mulock, 42. 
Jonathan, 20, 21. 
Joseph, 15, 21, 22. 
Joseph Warren, 17. 
Joseph William, 22. 
Josephine Eugenia, 22. 
Josephine Maria, 36. 
Josephine Stanley, 25. 
•*^Toshua, 19. 

Josiah, 13, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24. 

Juliana, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12. 

Julia Eunice, 39. 

Kenelm, 19. 

Lemuel, 15, 30. 

Lena Kearney, 19. 

Lendell Pitts, 17. 

Lettice, 11, 12. 

Levi Frank, 18. 

Levi Parsons, 17, 18. 

Levi Rounseville, 29. 

LiUie Sarah Eliza, 39. 

Livy, 16. 

Lizzie Adelaide, 37. 

Loraina Carrington, 28. 

Louise Granger, 40. 

Lovell, 25. 

Lovett Stimson, 35, 41. 

Lovice, 24. 

Lucia, 16. 

Lucretia, 17. 

Lucretia Parsons, 17. 

Lucy, 18, 21. 

Luella, 40. 

Lydia, 11, 15. 

Lydia Mason, 27. 

Manasseh, 12, 14, 17, 19. 

Marcus, 8, 26, 27, 28. 

Marcus Fred, 18. 

Margaret, 29, 31, 42, 43. 

Margaret Emma, 43. 

Mary, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 

17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 

30, 31, 40. 
Mary A., 41. 
Mary Adelaide, 43. 
Mary Agnes, 25. 
Mary Armine, 41. 
Mary C, 40. 
Mary E., 18, 42. 
Mary Elizabeth, 29. 
Mary Elizabeth Griffith, 38. 
Mary Francis, 30. 
Mary H., 28. 
Mary Hannah, 35, 36. 
Mary Hersey, 22. 
Mary J., 36. 
Mary Jane, 22. 
Mary Jewett. 38. 
Mary Josephine. 38. 
Mary Louise, 40. 
Martha, 12, 17, 26, 29. 





INDEX 






Martha Caroline, 38. 


Rebecca, 13. 14, 15, 20, 25, 


Susan Clarke. :'■'■>. 




Martha Woodbury, 22. 


26. 


Susan NuHim. 8& 




Maud, 4. 


Reliance, 20. 


Susan Tllllnguast. 27. 




Mercy, 11, 12, 13, 1C, 20, 22. 


Remember, 11. 


Susannah, 15, 19, 20. 




23. 29, 30. 


Robert, 3, 4, 5. 19. 


Svlvanus, 20. 




Merlah, 19, 24. 


Rose Laubham, 42. 


Tabor. 19. 




Minnie, 39. 


Russell Isaac, ,'!. r >, 40. 


Thaddeus, 24. 




Molly, 29. 


Ruth, 14, 19, 20, 23, 26. 


Thomas, 3, 4, 6, 8. », 13, 


U. 


Mordecal, 30. 


Samuel, 19. 


15, 20, 23. 27, 30, 31. 




Mordecal Kills. 30. 


Samuel Paul, 24. 


Timothy. 14, 20. 




Nancy Agnes, 40. 
Nathaniel, 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 
12, 13, 15, 16, 24, 25 20, 


Sampson, 5. 

Sara Josephine, 36. 

Sara Rosa, 38. 


Vance, 42. 

Wallace Augustine. 40, 42. 

William. 4, 20. ,!4. 35. 39. 


27, 30, 35. 
Nathaniel S., 40. 
Nicholas 4. 


^^.Sarab, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24, 2.".. 


40. 




20, 31, 38. 
Sarah Bradford, 22. 


William Addison. 29. 
William Alpueus, 36, 41. 






Sarah Carey, 27. 


William Bliss. 39, 42. 




Olive, 40. 


Sarah Harriet, 42. 


William F.dward, 25. 




Ophelia, 40. 


Sarah Josephine, 22. 


William Eugene, 40. 




Patience, 9, 12, 13, 23, 28, 


Sarah Maria, 25. 


William Franklin. 42. 




31. 


Sarah Maria Ann, 29. 


William (iray, 29. 




Percy Douglass, 42. 


Sarah Putnam, 36. 


William Henry, 25. 34, 


35, 


Perez, 21, 22. 


Sarah Roberts, 34. 


36. 




Persls, 14. 


Sarah Wentworth, 23. 


William Saxton. 22. 




Philander. 30. 


Seth, 16, 19, 24, 26. 


Zaccheus. 23, 31. 




Phoebe, 13, 14. 16. 


Silas, 20. 29. 


Zenith, 19. 




Prlscllla, 16, 30. 


Solomon, 23, 31. 


Zepbaniah. 19, 20. 




Rachel, 31. 


Stella Loretta, 43. 


Zlbiah. 24. 








Index to Surnames Other than Morton 



Abernathy. 41. 
Adams, 22. 
Ager, 31. 
Allen, 39. 
Ames, 28. 
Anthony, 37. 
Apthorp, 23. 
Armstrong, 34. 
Ashmun, 27. 
Atwater, 28. 
Bacon, 41. 
Bancroft, 39. 
Barber, 32. 
Barnaby, 14. 
Barrows, 9, 16, 29. 
Bartlett, 15, 22, 35. 
Barton, 41. 
Bassett, 29. 
Batchelder, 42. 
Baylies, 27. 
Beales, 16. 
Benham, 39. 
Bennett, 30. 
Bentley, 41. 
Bettam, 38. 
Bonum, 9. 
Bosworth, 11. 
Boun, 5. 
Bowler, 28. 
Bradford, 10, 32. 
Brandt, 39. 
Bridges, 40. 
Brlggs, 24. 
Brown. 35. 
Bryant, 40. 
Buck, 9. 
Bullock, 2i. 
Burke, 35. 

Canedy, 29. 
Capen, 24. 

Carpenter, 2. 3, 5, 12, 29. 
Champney, 33. 
Chanler, 19. 
Charnley, 28. 
Chaplin, 18. 
Chase, 41. 
'Chittenden, 21. 
Cbnrchlll. 13, 20. 



Clark, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 30, 
38 

Cobb, 16. 

Cole, 12. 

Collins, 36. 

Compton, 4. 

Conger, 25. 

Cook, 14, 19. 

Cooke, 18. 

Coombs, 12, 29. 

Cooper, 10, 12. 

Corcoran, 19. 

Cottle. 36. 

Cotton, 25. 

Cowan, 40. 

Coy, 30. 

Crane, 34. 

Cranmer, 4. 

Cummings. 39. 

Curson, 40. 

Currle, 40. 

Cushman. 29, 30. 

Cuthbert. 12. 

Cutler, 28. 

Daily, 16. 

Dallson, 4. 

Damon, 39. 

Davis. 13. 15, 24. 

Dawes, 28. 

Delano, 24. 
'Dermott, 34, 35. 

De Voe, 37. 

Dexter. 26, 31, 37. 

Diman, 21. 23. 

DIvver, 42. 
• Doty, 9, 15. 16. 

Douglas. 28. 

Drew, 14. 

Drinkwater, 37. 

Dner, 43. 

Dunham. 11. 

Eaton. 32. 

Eddy, 16. 

Ellis, 25. 30. 

Ellison, 11. 

Ensign, 35. 

Estes, 39. 

Enstis. 18. 

Everett, 27. 



Ewing. 42. 

Farley, 42. 

Faunce, tt, 13, 15. 21. 

Ferris, 37. 

Finney, 14, 20. 

Flshborne, 4. 

Flanders, 41. 

Ford, 13. 41. 

Foster, 16, 20. 22. 29. 

Frany, 17. 

French. 27, 36. 

FrobUcher, 4. 

Fuller. 12. 21. 

Garfield. 18. 

Gibson, 30. 

Gilbert, 40. 

Gill, 24. 

Gove. 39. 

Graeber, 36. 

Gray. 35. 

Greenwood. 33. 37. 

Griffith, 34. 37. 

Grimes, 22. 

Grlnnell. 17. 

Grlswold, 15. 

Groome, 37. 

Hale. 28. „ 

Hall. 11. 14. 15, 21. 29. 

Halswortb, 4. 

Ham. 37. 

Hammlll, 25. 

Hanford. 11. 

Hanscom. 35. 

Harlow. 9. 12, 13. 

Harrison, 18. 

Hartpence, 17. 

Hastings. 4. 

Hathaway, 29. 

Hatherly. 11. 

Hawes. 27. 

Hawkrldge. 25. 

Hayes, 18. 

Heath. 83. 

Hensley. 40. 

Hrrsey. 21. 

Hicks. 37. 

Hlgglns, 43. 

mn. 42. 

Hinckley. 21. 



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INDEX 



HlDHdale, 18. 

Hodges, -7. 

Holmes, U, 14, 10, 20, 24. 

Honour, 11. 

Hopkins, 13, 10. 

Hoppln. 2.V 

Howard. 25, 38. 

Infell, l.;. 

Jackson, 11. 

Jameson, 19. 

Jenney, 9. 

Johnson, 10. 

Jordan, 30. 

Josselynn, 11. 

KiMrnejr, 18. 

Keeney, 20. 

Kelso, 38. 

Kempton, 0, 14, 19. 

Kenlnton, 36. 

Kimball, 18, 27, 36, 38. 

Lacy, 4. 

Lambert, 40. 

Latimer, 40. 

Laubbam, 38. 

Lawrence, 26. 

Laxton, 4. 

Leach, 24. 

Leayltt. 36. 

Lee, 27. 

Leland. 34. 

Llttlefleld, 27. 

Livingston, 18. 

Lothrop, 11. 

]."virlnK. 27. 

.Markliiini, 4. 

Marshall, 15, 32. 

Mprrlaru. 86. 

Ifeaerrer, 38, 30. 

Mesdck, 40. 

Mills, 37. 

Mlnot, 17. 

Mitchell, 10. 

Montague, 17. 

Mullany, 28. 

Mulligan. 42. 

Unlock, 42. 

Murilock, 13. 

i>. 12, 13, 16, 27, 28. 
Newcomer. 40. 
NIcdoIb, 16. 41. 
Norton, 4. 5. 
Nowell, 42. 



Noyes, 31. 
Olln, 32, 33. 
Osborne, 31. 
Otis, 10. 
Paget, 4. 
Palmer, 27. 
Parsons, 17. 
Paul, 24. 
Perkins, 17. 
Peterson, 40. 
Phelps, 34. 
Pierce, 18. 
Plumpton, 5. 
Polk, 27. 
Pope, 26. 
Poor, 32. 
Pratt, 20, 26. 
Preble, 36. 
Prince, 11. 
Prltchard, 10. 
Purrington, 28. 
Rawlins, 14. 
Raymond, 25. 
Reed, 24, 37. 
Relder, 40. 
Richmond, 16. 
Rickard, 15, 20, 29. 
Riggs, 17. 
Riug, 11, 13. 
Ritch, 15. 
Roberts, 37. 
Robbing, 42. 
Robinson, 9. 
Rogers, 30. 
Rounsevill, 26. 
Russell, 35. 
Rutherford, 19. 
Safford, 17. 
Sagan, 19. 
Sampson, 20, 30. 
Seilliere, 19. 
Shackford, 36. 
Shaw, 13, 30. 
Shelley, 12. 
Sherburne, 34. 
Smith, 31, 34. 
Speed, 36. 
Spooner, 16. 
Sprout, 16. 
Stafford, 22. 
Staples, 29. 
Starr, 40. 



Stetson, 14, 16. 

Stevenson, 35. 

Stimson, 35. 

Stoeppler, 36. 

Stone, 39. 

Story, 25. 

Street, 18. 

Swift, 25. 

Taber, 18. 

Taileyrand-Perigord, 19. 

Tasker, 39. 

Taylor, 25. 

Templar, 10. 

Tetherly, 36. 

Thayer, 33. 

Thompson, 18, 22. 

Throop, 20. 

Tickell, 38. 

Tllson, 11. 

Tobey, 29. 

Tolman, 24. 

Torrey, 14, 24. 

Tragard, 39. 

Tufts, 30. 

Tupper, 26. 

Turner, 24. 

Tuttle, 37. 

Tyler, 18. 

Valencay, 19. 

Vaughan, 13. 

Venier, 35. 

Waldron, 36. 

Walker, 37. 

Ward, 15. 

Warren, 9, 10 

Washburn, 16, 

Washington, 33 

Watson, 27. 

Wentworth, 4, 42 

Wheeler, 22. 

White, 17, 39. 

Whitman, 28. 

Wilbur, 17. 

Wilcox, 35. 

Willis, 9. 

Wilson, 20. 

Wood, 15, 16, 20, 

Woodbury, 22. 

Woodworth, 11. 

Wormall, 11. 

Wright, 12, 21. 

York, 38, 39. 



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